bára
nafnorð, kvenkyn
Merkingar
u, f. [berja?], a wave, billow, v. alda; as a rule bára denotes the smaller waves caused by the wind (on the surface of larger billows), alda the rollers or swell, Bs. ii. 82, Fas. i. 186, Fms. x. 324 (of a breaker = boði), Gkv. 1. 7: the proverb, sigla milli skers ok báru, cp. inter Scyllam et Charybdin, Fms. ii. 268, Fb. iii. 402; sjaldan er ein báran stök, there is seldom a single billow: of misfortune, cp. Aesch. Prom. 1015 κακων τρικυμία, cp. also Ísl. Þjóðs. i. 660.
- β.
metaph. of undulations or rough stripes on the surface of a thing, e. g. the crust of a cheese, Fs. 146; a scull, cp. Eg. 769: báruskel, f. cardia testa cordata pectinata, a shell, Eggert Itin. p. 1010.
COMPDS:
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- f.
- kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- cp.
- compare.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- e. g.
- exempli gratia.
- COMPDS
- samsett orð (e. compounds)
Tilvitnuð rit
- Bs.
- Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Fas.
- Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Gkv.
- Guðrúnar-kviða. (A. II.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók. (E. I.)
- Ísl. Þjóðs.
- Íslenzkar þjóðsögur.
- Fs.
- Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
- Eg.
- Egils saga. (D. II.)
- Itin.
- Itinerarium or Travels of Eggert Ólafsson, 1772.