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barises

barises is the plural of baris.

Meaning of baris

Noun

baris (plural baris or barises)

  1. (historical) A type of flat-bottomed freighter used on the Nile in Ancient Egypt, powered either by sail, or by being towed by a downstream raft driven by the current, while dragging a stone anchor to keep the course steady.

Questions about barises

What is barises the plural of?
Barises is the plural of baris.

Words near barises in the dictionary

  1. Barisal
  2. Barisal District
  3. Barisal Division
  4. Barisal gun
  5. Barisal guns
  6. barises
  7. barish
  8. Barishal
  9. Barishes
  10. barista
  11. barista'd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barises (page history and authors); baris (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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