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See also: Bier, Bie̩r, and bier-

English

WOTD – 28 January 2010 Category:Word of the day archive Category:Word of the day archive/2010/January Category:Word of the day archive/2010

Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BIER Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-#BIER

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), Dutch baar (“bier”), German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”). More at bear.

Noun

bier (plural biers)Category:English lemmas#BIER Category:English nouns#BIER Category:English countable nouns#BIER Category:English entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
  They bore him bare-faced on the bier.
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A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
- 1971, Pichon Pei Yung Loh, The early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924‎, Columbia University Press, page 1:
  On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: "The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears."¹ Three years later, at the conclusion of the Northern Expedition, a similarly melodramatic scene unfolded before the eyes of the public as Chiang visited Sun's bier in the suburbs of Peking.
  Category:English terms with quotations#BIER
A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.^[1]

Derived terms

Translations

litter to transport the corpse of a dead person

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Arabic: جَنَازَة (ar) f (janāza)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#BIER
Czech: máry (cs) f plCategory:Terms with Czech translations#BIER
Dutch: baar (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BIER, lijkbaar (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BIER
Finnish: ruumispaarit (fi) plCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BIER
French: civière (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#BIER
Galician: escano (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#BIER, cadaleito mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#BIER
German: Bahre (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#BIER
Greek:
Ancient Greek: φέρετρον n (phéretron)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#BIER
Hindi: अरथी (hi) f (arthī)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BIER
Indonesian: kereta mayat (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#BIER
Irish: cróchar mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#BIER
Italian: barella (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#BIER, catafalco (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BIER
Macedonian: но́сило n (nósilo)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#BIER, катафа́лка f (katafálka)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#BIER
Malay: pedati jenazahCategory:Terms with Malay translations#BIER
Māori: puhirereCategory:Terms with Māori translations#BIER (for an important person), atamiraCategory:Terms with Māori translations#BIER
Odia: କୋକେଇ (or) (kokei)Category:Terms with Odia translations#BIER, କକୁଆ (or) (kakuā)Category:Terms with Odia translations#BIER, ଛଖଣ୍ଡ (or) (chakhaṇḍa)Category:Terms with Odia translations#BIER, ବାଜ୍ଖଟ୍ (or) (bājkhaṭ)Category:Terms with Odia translations#BIER, ଛଡ଼ାଙ୍ଗିଆ (or) (chaṛāṅgiā)Category:Terms with Odia translations#BIER, ଶବରଥ (śabaratha)Category:Terms with Odia translations#BIER
Polish: mary (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#BIER
Romanian: năsălie (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#BIER
Russian: похоронные носи́лки (ru) (nosílki)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BIER
Scottish Gaelic: giùlan mCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#BIER
Serbo-Croatian: katafalk (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BIER, barela (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BIER, pogrebna kolica n plCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BIER
Spanish: camilla (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#BIER, parihuelas (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#BIER, angarillas (es) f plCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BIER
Swahili: jeneza (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#BIER
Swedish: bår (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BIER
Tagalog: patungan ng kabaongCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#BIER
Tamil: பாடை (ta) (pāṭai)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#BIER, பிணக்கட்டில் (ta) (piṇakkaṭṭil)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#BIER
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: تسكره (teskere)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#BIER, جنازه (cenaze)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#BIER
Welsh: elor fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#BIER

platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed

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Czech: katafalk (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#BIER
Finnish: katafalkki (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BIER
French: catafalque (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#BIER, lit mortuaireCategory:Terms with French translations#BIER
Galician: catafalco (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#BIER
Hungarian: ravatal (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#BIER
Italian: catafalco (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#BIER
Macedonian: о́дар m (ódar)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#BIER
Polish: katafalk (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#BIER
Romanian: catafalc (ro) nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#BIER
Russian: катафа́лк (ru) m (katafálk)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BIER
Serbo-Croatian: katafalk (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BIER
Spanish: catafalco (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#BIER
Swedish: katafalk (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#BIER
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: جنازه (cenâze, cinâze)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#BIER
Welsh: elor fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#BIER

References

↑ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Bier”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

Anagrams

Brie, brie, rebi

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Afrikaans

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

bier

Wikipedia ^af

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bir/, [biːr]Category:Afrikaans terms with IPA pronunciation#BIER
Audio: (file)
Category:Afrikaans terms with audio pronunciation#BIER

Noun

bier (plural biere, diminutive biertjie)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#BIER Category:Afrikaans nouns#BIER Category:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

beer (alcoholic drink brewed from grains or other starch material)
(countable Category:Afrikaans countable nouns#BIER) a serving of beer

Derived terms

Category:af:Beer#BIER

Danish

Noun

bier cCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#BIER Category:Danish noun forms#BIER Category:Danish entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

indefinite plural of bi

Verb

bierCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#BIER Category:Danish verb forms#BIER Category:Danish entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

present of bie

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bir/, [biːr], [biər], [biɻ]Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#BIER
Audio; [bi̘ˑə̯ʀ]: (file)
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#BIER
Hyphenation: bier
Rhymes: -ir Category:Rhymes:Dutch/ir#BIER Category:Rhymes:Dutch/ir/1 syllable#BIER

Noun

bier n (plural bieren, diminutive biertje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#BIER Category:Dutch nouns#BIER Category:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#BIER Category:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Dutch neuter nouns#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

(uncountable Category:Dutch uncountable nouns#BIER) beer (alcoholic drink brewed from grains or other starch material)
Het is hier nu vooral feest en bier drinken.
Here it's mostly partying and drinking beer.
Category:Dutch terms with usage examples#BIER
(countable Category:Dutch countable nouns#BIER, usually in the diminutive) a serving of beer
(countable Category:Dutch countable nouns#BIER) a variety of beer

Synonyms

gerstenat

Descendants

Afrikaans: bier
Negerhollands: bier
→ Breton: bier
→ Caribbean Hindustani: bir
→ Caribbean Javanese: bir
→ Malay: bir
- Indonesian: bir
→ Japanese: ビール (bīru)
- → Hakka: 啤露 (pi-lú)
- → Hokkien: 米魯 / 米鲁 (bì-lù / bì-luh / bih-luh)
- → Korean: 비르 (bireu)
- → Jeju: 비르 (bireu)
→ Javanese: ꦧꦶꦂ (bir)
→ Sranan Tongo: biri
- Aukan: bii
- Saramaccan: bíi
- → Kari'na: biri

Anagrams

brei

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch Category:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch#BIER Category:Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch#BIER bier, from Proto-West Germanic Category:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#BIER Category:Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#BIER *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic Category:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#BIER Category:Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BIER *beuzą.

Noun

bier nCategory:Middle Dutch lemmas#BIER Category:Middle Dutch nouns#BIER Category:Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Middle Dutch neuter nouns#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

beer

Inflection

Strong neuter noun
	singular	plural
nominative	bier	bier, biere
accusative	bier	bier, biere
genitive	biers	biere
dative	biere	bieren

Category:Middle Dutch strong neuter nouns#BIER

Descendants

Dutch: bier (see there for further descendants)
Limburgish: beer
→ Middle French: biere
- French: bière
  - → Abenaki: labial (from "la bière")
  - Haitian Creole: byè
  - → Khmer: ប៊ីយេរ (biiyɛɛ)
  - → Lao: ເບຍ (bīa)
  - → Sango: bîêre
  - → Vietnamese: bia

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bier m or fCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#BIER Category:Norwegian Bokmål noun forms#BIER Category:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

indefinite plural of bie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bier fCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#BIER Category:Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms#BIER Category:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

indefinite plural of bie

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic Category:Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#BIER Category:Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#BIER *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic Category:Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#BIER Category:Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BIER *beuzą.

Noun

bier nCategory:Old Dutch lemmas#BIER Category:Old Dutch nouns#BIER Category:Old Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Old Dutch neuter nouns#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

beer

Declension

Declension of bier (neuter a-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	bier	bier
accusative	bier	bier
genitive	bieres	biero
dative	biere	bieron

Category:Old Dutch neuter a-stem nouns#BIER

Descendants

Middle Dutch: bier
- Dutch: bier (see there for further descendants)
- Limburgish: beer
- → Middle French: biere
  - French: bière
    - → Abenaki: labial (from "la bière")
    - Haitian Creole: byè
    - → Khmer: ប៊ីយេរ (biiyɛɛ)
    - → Lao: ເບຍ (bīa)
    - → Sango: bîêre
    - → Vietnamese: bia

References

“bier”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Vilamovian

Etymology

See bjēr

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)
Category:Vilamovian terms with audio pronunciation#BIER

Noun

bier f (plural biern)Category:Vilamovian lemmas#BIER Category:Vilamovian nouns#BIER Category:Vilamovian entries with incorrect language header#BIER Category:Vilamovian feminine nouns#BIER Category:Pages with entries#BIER Category:Pages with 11 entries#BIER

berry

West Frisian

A bier (litter).

Wikimore

bier

English

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Afrikaans

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Breton

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Danish

Noun

Verb

Dutch

Etymology

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Noun

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Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Noun

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Old Dutch

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Descendants

References

Vilamovian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

West Frisian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Etymology 2

Noun

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