imbar
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈbɑː(ɹ)/
Verb
imbar (third-person singular simple present imbars, present participle imbarring, simple past and past participle imbarred)
- (obsolete) To bar in; to secure.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- to imbar their crooked titles
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 29, recto:
- intercourse of learning and knowledge was chiefly imbarred
Related terms
- embar (possible synonym)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “imbar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈbɑːɾ/
Declension
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “imbar”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 357
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