Barbara

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: barbara, bárbara, barbará, barbára, barbarà, Barbára, and Bárbara

English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara.

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara (plural Barbaras)

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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; […]
    • 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, published 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, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3), 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.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Latin Barbara.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɑr.baːˌraː/, /ˈbɑr.bəˌraː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Faroese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara f

  1. 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]

From Latin Barbara (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Related terms[edit]

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin Barbara, from the saint's name.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbarbara/, [ˈbaʁ.bɐ.ʁa], [ˈbaɐ̯-], [ˈbaː-], [-bə-], [-ˌʁaː]
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara; popular especially in the mid-twentieth century

Related terms[edit]

Hungarian[edit]

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia hu

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek-speaking, foreign”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɒrbɒrɒ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra
  • Rhymes: -rɒ

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara

  1. 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
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		Barbaráé Barbaráké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		Barbaráéi Barbarákéi
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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Fercsik Erzsébet, Raátz Judit: Keresztnevek enciklopédiája, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2009

Italian[edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Anagrams[edit]

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 sg (genitive Barbarae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) the name of one of the more abominable prisons of the Grand Châtelet of Paris

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Barbara
Genitive Barbarae
Dative Barbarae
Accusative Barbaram
Ablative Barbarā
Vocative Barbara

Holonyms[edit]

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros). Doublet of Barbórka.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /barˈba.ra/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ara
  • Syllabification: Bar‧ba‧ra

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Barbara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara f (genitive singular Barbary, nominative plural Barbary)

  1. a female given name

Declension[edit]

Declension of Barbara
singular plural
nominative Barbara Barbary
genitive Barbary Barbár
dative Barbare Barbarám
accusative Barbaru Barbary
locative Barbare Barbarách
instrumental Barbarou Barbarami

Further reading[edit]

  • “Barbora”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Barbara c (genitive Barbaras)

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Derived terms[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Barbara&oldid=78385949"