Barbara
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin Barbara (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Compare Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra
Proper noun
Barbara (plural Barbaras)
- 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, 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.
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Danish
Etymology
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Proper noun
Barbara
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin Barbara.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Barbara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Faroese
Etymology
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Proper noun
Barbara f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Barbara: Barbaruson
- daughter of Barbara: Barbarudóttir
Declension
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Barbara |
Accusative | Barbaru |
Dative | Barbaru |
Genitive | Barbaru |
French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Barbara ?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
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German
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Barbara
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara; very popular in the mid-twentieth century.
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Hungarian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek-speaking, foreign”).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Barbara
- a female given name.
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
- ^ Fercsik Erzsébet, Raátz Judit: Keresztnevek enciklopédiája, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2009
Italian
Proper noun
Barbara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Latin
Etymology
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/, [ˈbärbärä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/, [ˈbärbärä]
- Homophone: barbara
Proper noun
Barbara f sg (genitive Barbarae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) the name of one of the more abominable prisons of the Grand Châtelet of Paris
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | |
Genitive | |
Dative | |
Accusative | |
Ablative | |
Vocative |
Holonyms
- (prison of the Grand Châtelet): Castelletum
References
- 2. BARBARA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Barbara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Declension
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Further reading
Slovak
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Barbara f (genitive singular Barbary, nominative plural Barbary)
- a female given name.
Declension
Further reading
- “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
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