English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɪə(r)/
• SAMPA: /bI@(r)/

Noun

beer (countable and uncountable; plural beers )

1. (uncountable) A fermented beverage made commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
2. (uncountable) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras , etc.
3. (uncountable) A solution produced by seeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
4. (countable) A glass of any of the above beverages.

Derived terms

• beer belly
• beer can
• beer mat
• ginger beer
• root beer

Translations

beverage made from barley

beverage made from roots

solution produced by seeping plant materials

glass of this beverage

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above, removing any numbers. Any numbering associating translations with definitions is unreliable.

• Afrikaans: bier
• Albanian: birrë
• Amharic: (bira)
• Arabic: بِيرَة , جِعَة , ضَرْبٌ منَ الجِعَة ,مِزْر
• Armenian: (Kareh Tchour)
• Asturian: cerveza
• Azerbaijani: пиво , pivo
• Basque: garagardo
• Belarusan : piva
• Bengali: (biAr)
• Bitruscan: bira
• Bosnian: pivo
• Breton: bier m
• Bulgarian: бира f (1, 2, 3)
• Catalan: cervesa f
• Cebuano: bir, sirbesa
• Chinese: 啤酒
• Croatian: pivo , okrajak osnove
• Czech: pivo
• Danish: bajer , øl , øllen
• Dutch: bier n
• Ekspreso: bira, servesa
• Esperanto: biero
• Estonian: õlu
• Filipino: serbesa
• Finnish: olut, kalja , kotikalja , mallasjuoma
• Frisian: |bier
• Galician: cervexa
• Gujarati: beer
• Hawaiian: pia , bia, bud
• Hebrew: בירה f
• Hungarian: sör
• Icelandic: bjór , öl
• Ilongo : serbisa
• Indonesian: bir
• Interlingua: bira
• Irish Gaelic: beoir
• Japanese: 麦酒 / ビール (bīru), ビア (bia)
• Korean: 맥주 (maekju)
• Latin: cervisia , cerevisia
• Latvian: alus
• Lithuanian: alus
• Malay: bir
• Maori: pia
• Mongolian: шар айраг , пиво
• Norwegian: øl
• Occitan: bièra f, cervesa f
• Persian: آبجو (Abejo)
• Polish: piwo n
• Portuguese: cerveja
• Romanian: bere f, olovină f (archaic)
• Romanica: bira f
• Russian: пиво
• Slovak: pivo
• Slovene: pivo n, ol m (archaic)
• Spanish: cerveza f
• Swahili: bia, boza
• Swedish: öl
• Tagalog: serbesa
• Tamil: (tOppi)
• Thai: Beer
• Tok Pisin: bia
• Turkish: bira
• Ukranian: пиво (pyvo)
• Urdu: sharaab
• Vietnamese: r­îu bia
• Volapük: bir, bil
• Welsh: bîr , cwrw , tablen
• Wolof: sangara
• Xhosa: ubhiya
• Yiddish: (bir)
• Zulu: utshwala

See also

• Wikipedia article on beer

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA : /'be:r/

Noun

beer m (f berin , m plural beren , f berin , f plural berinnen )

1. bear
2. boar