From the same stem as bārs (“lonely”) (q.v.), made into a second declension masculine noun (ending -is).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [bàːɾis]

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bāris m (2nd declension, feminine form: bāre)

1. (rare, usually genitive) (male) orphan (a boy who has lost one or both parents)

   bāra bērns, bārabērns ― orphan child

   kļūt par bāri ― to become an orphan

   netrūkst starp viņiem arī bāra bērnu, kam karš nolaupījis mātes glāstu un tēva padomu ― among them, thereis no shortage of orphan children, from whom the war stole (their) mother's caresses and (their) father's advice

• bāra bērns, bārabērns
• bārenis

• bārs

bāris

1. (with the particle esot) past conjunctive of bārt
2. (with the particle būtu) past conditional of bārt

bāris (definite bārušais)

1. having scolded; indefinite past active participle of bārt