Barbara

See also: Bárbara and barbara

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Barbra

Etymology

Name of a legendary saint, Latin Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (barbaros, “strange, foreign”). Compare Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian”).

Proper noun

Barbara (plural Barbaras)

1. A female given name.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, Act iv: Scene 3:

     My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; she had a song of 'willow'

   • 17th century or before: English folk song: Barbara Allen: 1839 version by Thomas Percy:

     All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.

   • 1860 Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood) East Lynne. Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0192804626 page 29:

     "What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!" "I don't think so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!" Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.

   • 1922 Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, ISBN 1603035281, page 76:

     "Everybody in the next generation," suggested Dick, "will be named Peter or Barbara - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or Barbara."

   • 2007 Marina Lewycka, Two Caravans, Fig Tree, ISBN 9780670916375, page 299:

     'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.

Related terms

• pet forms: Babs, Barb, Barbie

Translations

cognates and transliterations of female given name

• Armenian: Վարվառե (Varvaṙe)
• Bulgarian: Варвара f (Varvara)
• Catalan: Bàrbara
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芭芭拉 (zh) (Bābālā), 巴巴拉 (zh) (Bābālā)

• Czech: Barbora f, Barbara f
• Danish: Barbara
• Esperanto: Barbro
• Estonian: Barbara
• Finnish: Barbara (fi) (of foreigners)
• French: Barbara (fr) f, Barbe (fr) f
• German: Barbara (de) f
• Greek: Βαρβάρα (el) f (Varvára)
• Hawaiian: Palapala
• Hebrew: ברברה

• Hungarian: Barbara (hu)
• Irish: Báirbre
• Italian: Barbara (it)
• Latin: Barbara f
• Latvian: Baiba f
• Lithuanian: Barbora
• Norwegian: Barbro (no)
• Polish: Barbara (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bárbara
• Russian: Варвара (ru) f (Varvára) (cognate), Барбара f (Bárbara) (transliteration)
• Scottish Gaelic: Barabal f
• Slovak: Barbora f
• Slovene: Barbara (sl) f
• Spanish: Bárbara (es) f
• Swedish: Barbro (sv)

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Danish

Proper noun

Barbara

1. A female given name, cognate to Barbara.

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French

Proper noun

Barbara

1. A female given name, cognate to English Barbara.

Related terms

• Barbe

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Barbara

1. A female given name, cognate to Barbara; very popular in the mid-twentieth century.

Related terms

• Bärbel

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒrbɒrɒ/

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• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra

Proper noun

Barbara

1. A female given name.

Declension

declension of Barbara singular plural nominative Barbara Barbarák accusative Barbarát Barbarákat dative Barbarának Barbaráknak instrumental Barbarával Barbarákkal causal-final Barbaráért Barbarákért translative Barbarává Barbarákká terminative Barbaráig Barbarákig essive-formal Barbaraként Barbarákként essive-modal - - inessive Barbarában Barbarákban superessive Barbarán Barbarákon adessive Barbaránál Barbaráknál illative Barbarába Barbarákba sublative Barbarára Barbarákra allative Barbarához Barbarákhoz elative Barbarából Barbarákból delative Barbaráról Barbarákról ablative Barbarától Barbaráktól

possessives of Barbara possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. Barbarám Barbaráim 2nd person sing. Barbarád Barbaráid 3rd person sing. Barbarája Barbarái 1st person plural Barbaránk Barbaráink 2nd person plural Barbarátok Barbaráitok 3rd person plural Barbarájuk Barbaráik

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Barbara f

1. A female given name, cognate to Barbara.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barˈbara/

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Proper noun

Barbara f

1. A female given name, cognate to Barbara.

Declension

    declension of Barbara

	singular	plural
nominative	Barbara	Barbary
genitive	Barbary	Barbar
dative	Barbarze	Barbarom
accusative	Barbarę	Barbary
instrumental	Barbarą	Barbarami
locative	Barbarze	Barbarach
vocative	Barbaro	Barbary

Derived terms

• Basia