"byre" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbaɪɚ/ Forms: byres [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English bire, bier, byr, from Old English bȳre. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bire}} Middle English bire, {{m|enm|bier}} bier, {{m|enm|byr}} byr, {{inh|en|ang|byre#Etymology_5|bȳre}} Old English bȳre Head templates: {{en-noun}} byre (plural byres)
  1. (chiefly British) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in. Tags: British Categories (topical): Animal dwellings, Buildings Synonyms: cowbarn, cowhouse Coordinate_terms: cowshed Translations (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle): μάνδρα (mándra) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), حَظِيرَة (ḥaẓīra) [feminine] (Arabic), زَرِيبَة (zarība) [feminine] (Arabic), обор (obor) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 牛舍 (niúshè) (Chinese), вите (vit̬e) (Chuvash), azbar (Crimean Tatar), stald [common-gender] (Danish), koestal [masculine] (Dutch), bovejo (Esperanto), navetta (Finnish), étable [feminine] (French), Kuhstall [masculine] (German), βουστάσιο (voustásio) [neuter] (Greek), רֶפֶת (Hebrew), tehénistálló (Hungarian), cró beithíoch [masculine] (Irish), bóitheach [masculine] (Irish), vaccheria [feminine] (Italian), kuts (Latvian), fjøs [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), fjøs [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), vacaria [feminine] (Portuguese), хлев (xlev) [masculine] (Russian), коро́вник (koróvnik) [masculine] (Russian), bàthach [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), vaquería [feminine] (Spanish), vaqueriza [feminine] (Spanish), veteralecek (english: cattle) (Volapük), kunalecek (english: cows) (Volapük), bubalecek (english: cows) (Volapük)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.