bière
See also: biere, Biere, biére, and Bière
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bjɛʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛr
- Homophones: Bière, bières
Etymology 1
From Middle French biere, from late Old French biere, borrowed from Middle Dutch bier, bēr (“beer”), from Old Dutch *bier, from Frankish *bior (compare Old Saxon and Old High German bior), all from Proto-Germanic *beuzą. Akin to Old English bēor (“beer”). More at beer.
Noun
bière f (plural bières)
- beer
Derived terms
- bière à la pression
- bière blonde
- bière brune
- bière de garde
- bière de table
- panse à bière
- petite bière
Descendants
- → Abenaki: labial (from "la bière")
- → Khmer: ប៊ីយេរ (biiyɛɛ)
- → Lao: ເບຍ (bīa)
- → Vietnamese: bia
Etymology 2
From Old French biere, from Proto-Germanic *bērō; cognate with German Bahre and English bier.
Noun
bière f (plural bières)
- bier
- coffin
- La mise en bière. ― The action of putting a corpse in a coffin.
Further reading
- “bière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- Ibère