barba

See also: Appendix:Variations of "barba"

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “barba”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

1. chin
2. beard
3. baleen

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited 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 corresponding lemma form.

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, 2023
• “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.

Cimbrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian barba (“paternal uncle”), from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m (plural barben)

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) uncle

   De barben zeint zobia béetare. ― Uncles are like fathers.

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
• “barba” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Corsican

Alternative forms

• berba

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbe)

1. beard

References

• “barba” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Emilian

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

1. (Mirandola) beard

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarba]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arba
• Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Adjective

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

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

   Synonym: barbhava

Related terms

• barbo (“beard”)

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

barba

1. third-person singular past historic of barber

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard
2. chin

   Synonym: barbadela

3. (ornithology) barb (of a feather)

Further reading

• “barba” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Interlingua

Noun

barba (plural barbas)

1. beard

Related terms

• barbero

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/
• Rhymes: -arba
• Hyphenation: bàr‧ba

Etymology 1

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

Noun

barba f (plural barbe, diminutive barbétta or barbettìna; barbìna or (more common) barbìno m; barbicèlla or barbicìna or barbolìna, augmentative barbóna or (more common) barbóne m, pejorative barbàccia, derogatory barbùccia)

1. beard
2. (botany) root, rootlet
3. (zoology) barb
4. (colloquial) bore, drag, yawn (an event or action which is boring)

Derived terms

• barbabietola
• Barbarossa
• 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 (plural barbi)

1. (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle, protestant priest

   Synonym: zio

Descendants

• → Greek: μπάρμπας (bármpas)
• → Mòcheno: barba

Latin

barba (beard)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/, [ˈbärbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/, [ˈbärbä]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”). An initial */f-/ would have been expected, thus the initial /b-/ is presumed to be the outcome of assimilation with the following /-b-/.

Noun

barba f (genitive barbae); first declension

1. beard (facial hair)

   Barba nōn facit philosophum.

   A beard does not make a philosopher.

   Videō barbam et pallium; philosophum nōndum videō.

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

2. (figuratively) wool, down on a plant

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

• barbā tenus sapiēns
• barbātōria
• barbātus
• barbescō
• barbiger
• barbiō
• barbitium
• barbula
• barbus
• imberbis
• malebarbis

 

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: barbã
  • Istro-Romanian: borbĕ
  • Romanian: barbă
• Franco-Provençal: bârba
• Gallo-Romance
  • Emilian: barba
  • Ligurian: bàrba
  • Lombard: barba
  • Piedmontese: barba
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: barba
  • Italian: barba
  • Dalmatian: buarba
  • Sicilian: varva, barba, varba
• Occitano-Romance
  • Catalan: barba
  • Occitan: barba
• Oïl
  • Old French: barbe
    • Middle French: barbe
      • French: barbe
  • Old Northern French: barbe
    • Norman: barbe
    • Walloon: båbe
    • Anglo-Norman: barbe
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: barbe
  • Romansch: barba
• Sardinian: balba, barba, balva
• Venetian: barba
  • ⇒ Venetian: barbièr (“barber”)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: بربر‎ (berber) (see there for further descendants)
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: barba
  • Asturian: barba
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: barva
    • Galician: barba
    • Portuguese: barba
      • → Sranan Tongo: barba
  • Spanish: barba
• → Proto-Brythonic: *barv
  • Breton: barv
  • Cornish: barv
  • Welsh: barf

References

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

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian barba, from Latin.

Noun

barba f

1. beard

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian barba, from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m

1. uncle

   Coordinate term: moa'm

References

• “barba” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba m

1. uncle

Portuguese

barba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.bɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.bɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.bɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.bɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.bɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɻ.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.bɐ/ [ˈbaɾ.βɐ]

• Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:barba.

Related terms

• imberbe

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: barba

See also

• bigode

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarba]

Noun

barba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of barbă

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

Sicilian

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

1. Alternative form of varva

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾba/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞a]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -aɾba
• Syllabification: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard
2. chin

   Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

Noun

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

• a barba regalada
• andar con la barba por el suelo
• barba a barba
• barba cerrada
• barba de cabra
• barba de chivo
• barba de tres días
• barba partida
• barbas de ballena
• barbería
• barbero
• barbijo
• barbilla
• barbón
• barbudo
• con toda la barba
• echar a las barbas
• hacer la barba
• mentir por la barba
• por barba
• subirse a las barbas
• tirarse de las barbas

 

Related terms

• imberbe

 

Verb

barba

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

Further reading

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

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

Noun

barba

1. beard