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Bauer

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Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bauer (“pawn”).

Noun

Bauer

  1. (chess) Spoken by a player during a match with one or more visually impaired players to indicate a pawn in algebraic notation.

References

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Bauer

  1. A surname from German.
    • 2025 September 22, Lauren Gardner, “Co-author of study linking Tylenol to autism says pain reliever still an option”, in POLITICO‎:
      University of Massachusetts epidemiologist Ann Bauer reviewed existing research in a paper published last month in the journal Environmental Health with Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, the dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Bauer is the 517th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 65,004 individuals. Bauer is most common among White (95.1%) individuals.

Further reading

Anagrams

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Czech

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Bauer m anim (female equivalent Bauerová)

  1. a male surname from German

Declension

Declension of Bauer (hard masculine animate)
More information singular, plural ...

Further reading

  • “Bauer”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
  • Beneš, Josef (2020), Německá příjmení u Čechů [German Surnames of Czechs] (in Czech), Prague: Agentura Pankrác, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 304

French

Proper noun

Bauer ?

  1. a surname from German

German

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    From Middle High German būre, gebūre, from Old High German būr (“peasant”), gibūr, gibūro. All these forms ultimately descend from Proto-West Germanic *būr, itself from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“inhabitant, dweller”). Compare English boor.

    Noun

    Bauer m (weak or mixed, genitive (standard) Bauern or (informal) Bauers, plural Bauern, diminutive Bäuerchen n or Bäuerlein n, feminine Bäuerin or Bäurin)

    1. farmer (male or of unspecified gender)
      Synonyms: Landwirt, Farmer
    2. peasant (male or of unspecified gender)
    3. (derogatory) boor, yokel, bumpkin (male or of unspecified gender)
    4. (chess) pawn
    5. (card games) jack, knave
      Synonyms: Bube m, Unter m
    Usage notes
    • Bauer is a weak noun in the standard language, but is part of a group of nouns which have a clear tendency to be strong colloquially, so one will often hear dem Bauer instead of dem Bauern.
    Declension
    Declension of Bauer [masculine, weak // mixed]
    More information singular, plural ...

    1Standard.
    2Colloquial.

    Coordinate terms
    Chess pieces in German · Schachfiguren, Schachsteine (layout · text)
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    König Dame, Königin Turm Läufer Springer, Pferd, Ross, Rössel Bauer
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • → English: bauer; bower
    • → Polish: bauer
    • → Serbo-Croatian: pȁor, па̏ор
    German Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Proper noun

    Bauer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Bauers or (with an article) Bauer, feminine genitive Bauer, plural Bauers or Bauer)

    1. a surname originating as an occupation
    Declension
    Declension of Bauer [masculine // feminine, surname]
    More information singular, plural ...

    1With an article.

    Etymology 2

      From Middle High German būr, from Old High German būr (“dwelling”).

      Noun

      Bauer n or m (strong, genitive Bauers, plural Bauer)

      1. (archaic or regional) birdcage
        Synonyms: Vogelkäfig m, Vogelbauer n or m
      Declension
      Declension of Bauer [neuter // masculine, strong]
      More information singular, plural ...
      Derived terms
      • Vogelbauer m

      Etymology 3

        From bauen +‎ -er.

        Noun

        Bauer m (strong, genitive Bauers, plural Bauer, feminine Bauerin)

        1. (almost exclusively in compounds) builder (male or of unspecified gender)
        Declension
        Declension of Bauer [masculine, strong]
        More information singular, plural ...
        Hyponyms

        Further reading

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        Luxembourgish

        Etymology

        From Middle High German būre, gebūre, from Old High German būr (“peasant”), gibūr, gibūro.

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        Bauer m (plural Baueren)

        1. farmer
        2. pawn (chess piece)

        Synonyms

        See also

        Chess pieces in Luxembourgish · Schachfiguren (Schach + Figuren) (layout · text)
        ♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
        Kinnek Damm Tuerm Leefer Sprénger Bauer

        Pennsylvania German

        Etymology

        From Middle High German būre, gebūre, from Old High German būr (“peasant”), gibūr, gibūro.

        Noun

        Bauer m (plural Bauer)

        1. farmer

        Slovak

        Pronunciation

        Proper noun

        Bauer m pers (female equivalent Bauerová)

        1. a male surname

        Declension

        More information singular, plural 1 ...

        Further reading

        • “Bauer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
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        Slovene

        Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
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        Etymology

        Borrowed from German Bauer.

        Pronunciation

        Proper noun

        Bauer m anim

        1. a surname from German

        Further reading

        • “Bauer”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

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