Noun: bara
Gender: f
Hyphenation: bà‧ra
| Singular f | bara |
| Plural f | bare |
Sample Sentences
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e del suo grembo l’anima preclara
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mover si volle, tornando al suo regno,
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e al suo corpo non volle altra bara. (And from her bosom the illustrious soul wished to depart, returning to its realm, and for its body wished no other bier.) [1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XI”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 115–117; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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Il cadavere fu deposto nella bara. (The body was placed in the coffin.)
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molte bare in attesa di sepoltura (a number of coffins awaiting burial)
Nouns inflected like bara
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Lombardic bāra (“bier, litter”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry”). Compare German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”). See: German Nouns '
Bahre'.
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