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bara.

bier (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈba.ra/
  1. bier (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)

    feminine
  2. coffin (box in which a person is buried)

    feminine
    Il cadavere fu deposto nella bara.
    molte bare in attesa di sepoltura
  3. litter, stretcher

    feminine · obsolete
  4. a carriage used to transport a saint's relics

    feminine
  5. an animal-drawn carriage typical of Tuscany and Liguria

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Lombardic bāra (“bier, litter”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry”). Compare German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”).

verb/ˈba.ra/
  1. inflection of barare: third-person singular present indicative

    form-of · indicative · present · singular · third-person
  2. inflection of barare: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
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