imbar

From im- +‎ bar.

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɑː(ɹ)/

imbar (third-person singular simple present imbars, present participle imbarring, simple past and past participle imbarred)

1. (obsolete) To bar in; to secure with, or as if with, bars.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     to imbar their crooked titles

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 29, recto:

     intercourse of learning and knowledge was chiefly imbarred

• embar (possible synonym)

• “imbar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Birma, MBARI, abrim, brami, mbari, mbira

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɑːɾ/

imbar m (Arabic spelling ئمبار)

1. alternative form of embar (“storehouse”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “imbar”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 357