Barbara
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Barbara (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Compare Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian”).
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara (plural Barbaras)
- A female given name.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:: 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 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, 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, page 299:
- 'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
cognates and transliterations of female given name
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Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara
- A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Latin Barbara.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara f
- A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Faroese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara f
- A female given name
Usage notes[edit]
Matronymics
- son of Barbara: Barbaruson
- daughter of Barbara: Barbarudóttir
Declension[edit]
| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | Barbara |
| Accusative | Barbaru |
| Dative | Barbaru |
| Genitive | Barbaru |
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara
- A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara
- A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara; very popular in the mid-twentieth century.
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara
- A female given name.
Declension[edit]
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Possessive forms of Barbara | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 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 |
Italian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara f
- A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably a substantivisation, used as a proper noun, of the feminine forms of barbarus (“wild”, “savage”, “cruel”, “barbarous”), in elliptical use for Prensiō Barbara (“the Cruel Prison”). Compare barbara (“a wild, savage, cruel, or barbarous woman”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara f (genitive Barbarae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) the name of one of the more abominable prisons of the Grand Châtelet of Paris
Declension[edit]
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Barbara |
| genitive | Barbarae |
| dative | Barbarae |
| accusative | Barbaram |
| ablative | Barbarā |
| vocative | Barbara |
Holonyms[edit]
- (prison of the Grand Châtelet): Castelletum
References[edit]
- 2. BARBARA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara f
- A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Declension[edit]
declension of Barbara
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Barbara in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovak[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Barbara f (genitive Barbary, nominative plural Barbary)
- A female given name.
Declension[edit]
Declension of Barbara
Further reading[edit]
- Barbora in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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