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bara

French, noun/ba.ʁa/

bara is a French masculine noun meaning “work, labour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travail, boulot”.

What does bara mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinework, labour

verb

  1. 1

    to work, to labour

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Travailler. 2. Brouter, arnaquer quelqu’un en tant que brouteur.

noun: 1. Travail, boulot. 2. Arnaque faite par un brouteur, arnaque sur Internet.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce bara?

  • /ba.ʁa/
  • \ba.ʁa\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is bara in French?

bara appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).