"Bara" is a word in TAGALOG, ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO

adj. /NA-/ hot, warm; feverish. Nabara ti pingping mo. Your cheek is hot. v. /-UM-/ to be like this.

n. yardstick, a unit of measurement almost equivalent to a yard.

n. lung.

bara
Definition: see bara1 see bara2

bara1
Active Verb: magbara
Passive Verb: ibara
Definition: 1) to cause an obstruction (verb) 2) to bar, to hinder, to obstruct something (verb)
Examples: 1) Bumara sa daan ang nabuwal na kahoy. (The uprooted tree blocked the road/pathway.) 2) Ibara mo ang bato sa daan. (Block the road/path with stones.)

bara2
Active Verb: bumara
Passive Verb: barahin
Definition: 1) to cause an obstruction (verb) 2) to bar, to hinder, to obstruct something (verb)
Examples: 1) Bumara sa daan ang nabuwal na kahoy. (The uprooted tree blocked the road/pathway.) 2) Ibara mo ang bato sa daan. (Block the road/path with stones.)

bára n {1} steel bar, rod.
dikabra crowbar.
{2} frame of a bicycle.
{3} measurement, the span from the shoulder to the tip of the opposite hand with the arm extended.
{4} i eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth.
Pamaslan tikaw bára i bára sa ímung gibúhat kanákù, I will repay you eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth for what you have done to me.
{4a} punishment sent to a philanderer that his daughter falls victim to a philanderer.
Bára nà níya nga gipaangkan ang íyang anak kay himabáyi man, Its his punishment for being a philanderer that his daughter was made pregnant.
v {1} [A13; a12] make into a bar.
{2} [b4] for a girl to su?
er at the hands of a philanderer as a punishment to her father.
Baráhan ang átung anak ug magsígi kag pamabáyi, Our daughter will become a victim herself if you keep chasing women.
{3} [A2C; c1] for a brother and sister in one family to marry a brother and sister in another.
Gibára sa mga Kurtis ug Sansis ang ílang mga anak, A son and daughter of the Corteses married a son and daughter of the Sanchezes.
barabára n shaft for a horse carriage.
v [a] make into a shaft for a carriage, put a shaft on.
barabara n shaft in a pressurized kerosene lantern which holds the needle controlling the width of the orifice through which the vaporized kerosene passes.
barahan n {1} yard-stick.
{2} criterion for measuring s.t.
-in-() n k.
o.
cloth of cheap quality with big, checkered prints.
v [A; b6] wear this sort of cloth.

bara v [AB] clog s.t.
up, be clogged up.
May nuug nga mibara sa túbu sa hugasan, A piece of cloth clogged up the drain in the sink.
Nabara ang isdang búhì sa ákung tutunlan, The live fish stuck in my throat.
Magkabara ang trapiku basta magkaalas dúsi, Tra?
c gets clogged up at about twelve oclock.

bára n {4b} sa Ispiritu Santu n a grievous sin originally com-mitted by an ancestor to be paid subsequently by seven gener-ations.
v {2a} [b5] su?
er from having incurred the wrath of the Holy Spirit.
Gibára (gibaráhan) sa Ispiritu Santu nang pami-lyáha, That family has incurred the wrath of the Holy Spirit.

bára - (Sp. vara, barra) Yard, yard-stick;
crowbar, iron bar. (cf. báda).

bará - (Sp. varar) To run aground, to run
on sand in shallow water, be stranded (said
of ships). Nagbará or nabará ang bapór.
The steamer ran aground. Andamí ang ímo
pagdalá sang sakayán, agúd índì
magbará. Be careful in steering the boat,
lest it should run aground. Dî mo
pagpabarahón ang bapór. Don’t run the
boat aground. Figuratively: Nabará kamí

baó – baráw
kahápon sa igtubá. Yesterday we were
stranded on the other side of the river.