bewehren

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German bewern, from Old High German biwerren, biwerien, from Proto-West Germanic *biwarjan. By surface analysis, be- +‎ wehren. Cognate with Dutch beweren. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bəˈveːʁən/, [bəˈveː.ʁən], [-ˈveː.ɐn], [-ˈveːɐ̯n], [-ˈvɛɐ̯n] Rhymes: -eːʀən Homophone: bewähren (some speakers) === Verb === bewehren (weak, third-person singular present bewehrt, past tense bewehrte, past participle bewehrt, auxiliary haben) (military, archaic, but still figurative in higher register) to arm, protect, fortify (engineering) to armor, reinforce (building materials like concrete in order to increase their solidity) Synonym: armieren bewehrter Beton ― reinforced concrete (obsolete, except in mit Strafe bewehren) to forbid, hinder, ward off ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Bewehren, Bewehrung metallbewehrt stahlbewehrt strafbewehrt unbewehrt === Further reading === “bewehren” in Duden online “bewehren”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “bewehren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “bewehren” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.