lager

See also: Lager, läger, låger, and Läger

English

WOTD – 29 June 2009

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

A pint of lager.

From German Lagerbier (beer made for storing), from Lager (store). Cognate with native English lair.

Noun

lager (plural lagers)

  1. A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)

  1. To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.

See also

Noun

lager (plural lagers)

  1. Alternative spelling of laager

Verb

lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)

  1. Alternative spelling of laager

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaːˀɣər/, [ˈlæˀjɐ], [ˈlæˀɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aːˀər

Etymology 1

From German Lager, cognate with Danish lejr.

Noun

lager n (singular definite lageret, plural indefinite lagre)

  1. store, warehouse
Inflection

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of lagerøl.

Noun

lager c (singular definite lageren, plural indefinite lagere)

  1. (rare) lager (type of beer)
Inflection
Synonyms
  • lagerøl

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaː.ɣər/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: la‧ger
  • Rhymes: -aːɣər

Etymology 1

From German Lager; doublet of leger

Noun

lager m or n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)

  1. bearing (a metal block or other construction holding a rotating axis in position)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From German Lager, shortening of Lagerbier (lager beer), a compound of Lager (storehouse) + Bier (beer).

Noun

lager n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)

  1. (archaic) beer of low fermentation

Etymology 3

Likely borrowed from German Lager (storehourse), with semantic influence from Afrikaans laer.

Noun

lager n (plural lagers)

  1. (historical) laager (wagon fort used by Boers, especially Voortrekkers)
Hypernyms

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

lager

  1. comparative degree of laag
Descendants
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: lagri

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlaː.ɡɐ]
  • (file)

Verb

lager

  1. first-person singular present of lagern (colloquial)
  2. singular imperative of lagern (colloquial)

Icelandic

Etymology

From German Lager.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaːɣɛr/

Noun

lager m (genitive singular lagers, nominative plural lagerar)

  1. stock, inventory
  2. store, stock room

Declension

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of stock): vörubirgðir
  • (antonym(s) of store): vörugeymsla

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German Lager.

Noun

lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager or lagre, definite plural lagra or lagrene)

  1. a warehouse
  2. a bearing (mechanical part)
Derived terms

Verb

lager

  1. present tense of lage

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑːɡər/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ər
  • Hyphenation: lag‧er

Noun

lager m

  1. indefinite plural of lag

References

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Lager.

Noun

lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager, definite plural lagera)

  1. a warehouse
  2. a bearing (mechanical part)

Derived terms

References

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑːɡɛr/
  • (file)

Etymology 1

German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-West Germanic *legr. Doublet of läger (place to sleep).

Noun

lager n (countable)

  1. a store, a warehouse (a place where things are stored, for example before they are moved out to the sales area in a shop)
  2. a supply, stock (the things in a store)
    Synonym: förråd n
  3. a layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
  4. a stratum (one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another)
    Synonym: skikt n
  5. (mechanical engineering) a bearing (a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction, especially between rotating parts)
Declension
Declension of lager 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lager lagret lager lagren
Genitive lagers lagrets lagers lagrens
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish laver, laur, laghur, lagher, laghir, from Middle Dutch lauwer, ultimately from Latin laurus.

Noun

lager c (countable or uncountable)

  1. laurel
  2. (figuratively, usually in the plural) a crown of laurel, an academic merit
    där de härliga lagrarna gro
    where the wonderful laurels grow (i.e. at the university)
    vila inte på lagrarna
    don't rest on your laurels (don't let old victories make you lazy)
Declension
Declension of lager 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lager lagern lagrar lagrarna
Genitive lagers lagerns lagrars lagrarnas
Derived terms
  • lagerbär
  • lagerkrans

Etymology 3

Clipping of lageröl, from lager (store) + öl (beer).

Noun

lager c (countable or uncountable)

  1. lager (a type of beer)
Declension
Declension of lager 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lager lagern lager lagerna
Genitive lagers lagerns lagers lagernas

Further reading

Anagrams

Uzbek

Noun

lager (plural lagerlar)

  1. camp
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