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bara.

bread

4 characters2 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbara/North-Wales/ˈba(ː)ra/South-Wales
  1. bread

    masculine · uncountable
  2. food, meal, sustenance

    figuratively · masculine · uncountable
  3. means of subsistence, livelihood

    figuratively · masculine · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle Welsh bara, Proto-Celtic *bargos, *barginā (“cake, bread”) (compare Breton bara, Cornish bara, Old Irish bairgen f (“bread, loaf; food, plain diet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”) (Old Norse barr (“corn, grain, barley”), Latin far (“spelt”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno).

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