bière

See also: biere, Biere, 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 bior, 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 (“draught beer”)
bière blonde

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.

Anagrams

Ibère

Further reading

“bière” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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