bagarre

Uncertain. Compare Middle French bagarot (“noise, tumult, contention, strife”) and Provençal bagarro (“brawl”), possibly from Basque batzarre (“meeting, assembly”). Compare also Old Norse bágr (“resistance, struggle”).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡaʁ/ ~ /ba.ɡɑʁ/

• Audio:

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bagarre f (plural bagarres)

1. brawl, fight
   • 1968, “Avant la bagarre”, performed by France Gall:

     Avant la bagarre / Réfléchis bien / Car il est bien plus grand que toi

     Before the fight / Think about it / Because he's much bigger than you

• → Italian: bagarre

• “bagarre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• barrage

Unadapted borrowing from French bagarre.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡar/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ar

bagarre f (invariable)

1. heated discussion, row
2. turmoil, bustle

   Synonyms: tafferuglio, trambusto, tumulto

3. (cycling) decisive leg of a cycling race

• bagarre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• garbare, garberà