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bâr

Pronunciation: /baːr/

“bâr” is a Welsh word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. passion
  2. affliction, adversity
  3. desire, covetousness, lust
  4. gluttony

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Celtic *barens (“fury, anger”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“pierce, strike”). Doublet of baran. Cognate with Old Irish barain.

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