bière

See also: biere, Biere, biére, and Bière

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bjɛʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛr
Homophones: Bière, bières

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French biere, borrowed from Middle Dutch bier, from Old Dutch *bier, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ (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

Descendants

→ Abenaki: labial (from "la bière")
→ Khmer: ប៊ីយេរ (biiyɛɛ)
→ Lao: ເບຍ (bīa)
→ Vietnamese: bia

Etymology 2

Inherited 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

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