barber

English

Wikipedia

A barber cuts hair on the streets of Harbin, China.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from Latin barba.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbɑːbə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)bə(r)

Noun

Wikipedia barber (plural barbers)

1. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers’ hair and beards.
2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.

Synonyms

• hairdresser, hair-dresser
• hairstylist, hair-stylist

Derived terms

• barber pole, barber's pole
• barber shop

Translations

profession

• Albanian: berber (sq) m
• Arabic: حَلاّق (ar) (ḥallaq) m

  Egyptian Arabic: حلاق (ḥallaq) m

• Bulgarian: бръснар (bg) (brǎsnar) m (brasnar), фризьор (bg) (frizjor) m (frizjor), фризьорка (bg) (frizjorka) f (frizjorka)
• Chechen: ларгант
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 理髮師 (cmn), 理发师 (cmn) (lǐfǎshī)

• Czech: holič (cs) m, lazebník (cs) m, bradýř (cs) m (hist.)
• Dutch: kapper (nl) m, haarkapper (nl) m, coiffeur (nl) m (Only in Flanders), barbier (nl) m (deprecated)
• Esperanto: barbiro (eo)
• Finnish: parturi (fi), hiustenleikkaaja (fi)
• French: coiffeur (fr) m, coiffeuse (fr) f, barbier (fr) m
• German: Friseur (de) m, Friseurin (de) f
• Greek: κουρέας (el) (kouréas) m
• Hebrew: ספר (he) (sapar) m, ספרית (he) (saparyt) f
• Hungarian: borbély (hu)
• Icelandic: rakari (is) m
• Indonesian: barbir (id), tukang cukur (id)
• Italian: barbiere (it) m
• Japanese: 理髪師 (ja) (りはつし, rihatsushi), 床屋 (ja) (とこや, tokoya)
• Jèrriais: barbyi m
• Kamba: kinyozi

• Kazakh: шаштараз (kk) (şaştaraz)
• Kikuyu: kinyothi
• Korean: 이발사 (ko) (ibalsa)
• Lao: ຊ່າງຕັດຜົມ (lo)
• Latin: tonsor (la) m
• Luhya: kinyozi
• Luo: kinyozi
• Macedonian: бербер (mk) (bérber) m
• Maltese: barbier m, barbiera f
• Maori: kaikuti makawe
• Polish: fryzjer (pl) m, balwierz (pl) m, golarz (pl) m, fryzjerka (pl) f
• Portuguese: barbeiro (pt) m
• Russian: парикмахер (ru) (parikmáxer) m, брадобрей (ru) (bradobréj) m, цирюльник (ru) (cirjúl’nik) m
• Serbo-Croatian: брица (sh) (brica) m
• Slovak: holič (sk) m, kaderníčka (sk) f
• Slovene: brivec (sl) m
• Spanish: peluquero (es) m
• Swahili: kinyozi (sw)
• Swedish: frisör (sv) c, barberare (sv) c
• Tagalog: barbero
• Telugu: క్షురకుడు (kshurakudu), మంగలి (mangali)
• Turkish: berber (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) jeifan (vo), (♂) hijeifan (vo), (♀) jijeifan (vo)
• West Frisian: skearbaas (fy)

Verb

barber (third-person singular simple present barbers, present participle barbering, simple past and past participle barbered)

1. To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
2. (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 29:

     ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

Translations

to cut the hair

• Arabic: حلاقة
• Bulgarian: подстригвам (bg) (podstrigvam)
• Dutch: haarknippen, haren knippen, scheren (to shave)
• Finnish: parturoida, leikata hiukset
• German: frisieren, Haare schneiden
• Greek: κουρεύω (el) (kourévo)

• Hebrew: סיפר (he) (sipér)
• Macedonian: стриже (mk) (stríže), берберисува (mk) (berberisúva)
• Portuguese: barbear, cortar cabelo
• Swedish: klippa (sv), barbera (sv)
• Telugu: క్షవరం చేయు, జుత్తు కత్తరించు

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French

Etymology

From barbe +‎ -er; compare with familiar sense of raser which was its original meaning in Old French.

Verb

barber

1. (familiar) to bore someone

   Le fait est qu'il ne perd aucune occasion de nous barber avec ses expériences dramatiques. (Claudel, Le Ravissement de Scapin, 1952)

Derived terms

• barbant

Conjugation

   Conjugation of barber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		barber			avoir barbé
gerund		en barbant			en ayant barbé
present participle		barbant
past participle		barbé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	barbe	barbes	barbe	barbons	barbez	barbent
	imperfect	barbais	barbais	barbait	barbions	barbiez	barbaient
	past historic1	barbai	barbas	barba	barbâmes	barbâtes	barbèrent
	future	barberai	barberas	barbera	barberons	barberez	barberont
	conditional	barberais	barberais	barberait	barberions	barberiez	barberaient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	barbe	barbes	barbe	barbions	barbiez	barbent
	imperfect1	barbasse	barbasses	barbât	barbassions	barbassiez	barbassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	barbe	—	barbons	barbez	—
1literary tenses

References

• "barber" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).