barba

See also: Barba, bárba, barbá, bàrba, barbà, barbã, and barbă

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

1. chin
2. beard
3. baleen

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.bə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.ba/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan barba, from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

1. chin

   Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta

2. beard

Derived terms

• barbamec
• barber
• barbeta
• barbut

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

barba

1. third-person singular present indicative form of barbar
2. second-person singular imperative form of barbar

Further reading

• “barba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “barba” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “barba” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “barba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cimbrian

Noun

barba m (plural barben)

1. uncle

References

• “barba” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.

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Emilian

Alternative forms

• bärba (Parmigiano)
• berba (Carpigiano)
• bèrba (Bolognese)

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

1. (Mirandolese) beard

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Esperanto

Etymology

From barbo (“beard”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

barba (accusative singular barban, plural barbaj, accusative plural barbajn)

1. of or related to beards
2. (of people) having a beard, beardy

Synonyms

• (bearded): barbhava

Related terms

• barbo (“beard”)

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French

Verb

barba

1. third-person singular past historic of barber

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard
2. chin
3. (ornithology) barb (of a feather)

Synonyms

• (chin): barbadela

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Interlingua

Noun

barba (plural barbas)

1. beard

Related terms

• barbero

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

barba f (plural barbe)

1. beard
2. (botany) root, rootlet
3. (zoology) barb
4. (colloquial) bore, drag, yawn

Derived terms

Derived terms

• barbabietola
• barbone

• barboso
• barbuto

Related terms

• imberbe

See also

• baffi m pl

Etymology 2

From the above term, from the fact that a beard represents a grown man.

Noun

barba m

1. (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle

Synonyms

• zio

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Latin

barba (beard)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/

Etymology 1

From earlier *farba, with initial b- assimilated to -rb, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”). Compare also barbātus.

Noun

barba f (genitive barbae); first declension

1. beard (facial hair)

   Barba non facit philosophum.

   A beard does not make a philosopher.

   Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video.

   I see a beard and cloak; a philosopher I don’t yet see.

2. (figuratively) wool, down on a plant

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	barba	barbae
genitive	barbae	barbārum
dative	barbae	barbīs
accusative	barbam	barbās
ablative	barbā	barbīs
vocative	barba	barbae

Synonyms

• (beard): barbitium

Derived terms

• barbātōria
• barbātus
• barbescō
• barbiger
• barbiō
• barbitium
• barbula
• barbus
• imberbis

Descendants

• Aromanian: barbã
• Asturian: barba
• → Proto-Brythonic: *barv
  • Breton: barv
  • Cornish: barv
  • Welsh: barf
• Catalan: barba
• Dalmatian: buarba
• English: barber
• Esperanto: barbo
• Franco-Provençal: bârba
• French: barbe
• Friulian: barbe

• Galician: barba
• Istro-Romanian: borbĕ
• Italian: barba
• Ligurian: bàrba
• Occitan: barba
• Old Portuguese: barva
  • Portuguese: barba
• Romanian: barbă
• Romansch: barba
• Sardinian: balba, barba, balva
• Sicilian: barba, varba, varva
• Spanish: barba
• Venetian: barba
• Walloon: båbe

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 69

Etymology 2

A variant form of the Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m (genitive barbae); first declension

1. Alternative form of barbās

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	barba	barbae
genitive	barbae	barbārum
dative	barbae	barbīs
accusative	barbam	barbās
ablative	barbā	barbīs
vocative	barba	barbae

References

• barba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• barba in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 2. BARBA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
    
• barba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• barba in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba m

1. uncle

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Portuguese

barba

Etymology

From Old Portuguese barba, barva, from Latin barba (“beard”), from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.βɐ/
• Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:barba.

Related terms

• imberbe

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: barba

See also

• bigode m

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰ-eh₂- (compare English beard). Compare meaning of "uncle" to Friulian barbe, Italian barba, Dalmatian buarba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

Noun

barba m (plural barbas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) uncle

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) aug
• (Sutsilvan) oc, ô

Coordinate terms

• (with regards to gender):
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) onda
  • (Vallader) anda
  • (Puter, Vallader) tanta

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Sicilian

Alternative forms

• varba
• varva

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

1. beard

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarba/, [ˈbarβa]

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard
2. chin

   Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

barba m (plural barbas)

1. beardy, bearded man
2. (archaic) the part of an old man (in a play)
3. (archaic) the villain (of a play)

Derived terms

• barbería
• barbero
• barbilla
• barbudo
• a barba regalada
• andar con la barba por el suelo
• barba a barba
• barba cerrada
• barba de tres días
• barbas de chivo
• echar a las barbas
• hacer la barba
• por barba
• subirse a las barbas
• tirarse de las barbas

Related terms

• imberbe

Further reading

• “barba” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

Noun

barba

1. beard