barbe
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
barbo (“beard”) + -e (“adverb”)
Adverb[edit]
barbe
- in the manner of beards, beardically
Related terms[edit]
- barbo (“beard”)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe, from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).
Noun[edit]
barbe f (plural barbes)
- beard
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Je regardais hier le buste d'un philanthrope ; c'était une tête à moitié chauve, une barbe en pointe, et l'air d'un sous-chef à son bureau.(Alain, Propos, 1910)
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- longer hair growing on the chin or face of some animals
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La barbe d'une chèvre, d'un bouc.
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- barbel, whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon.
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les barbes du brochet.
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- (feather) barb
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Le duvet est constitué de petites plumes légères dont les barbes ne sont pas enchevêtrées.
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- (botany) barb, hair or bristle.
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La besogne des bœufs terminée, vinrent des serviteurs qui, armés d'écopes de bois, élevaient le blé en l'air et le laissaient retomber pour le séparer des pailles, des barbes et des cosses.(Gautier, Le Roman de la momie, 1858)
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- (colloquial) a boring thing
- Quelle barbe !
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Italian barbero, barbaro.
Adjective[edit]
barbe (plural barbes)
- (horse) Barbary
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un cheval barbe.
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Noun[edit]
barbe m (plural barbes)
- Barbary horse
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Les barbes d'Abaco sont une toute petite population de chevaux barbes espagnols sauvages sur l'île d'Abaco.
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Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
barbe
- first-person singular present indicative of barber
- third-person singular present indicative of barber
- first-person singular present subjunctive of barber
- third-person singular present subjunctive of barber
- second-person singular imperative of barber
References[edit]
- “barbe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading[edit]
- “barbe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun[edit]
barbe f (plural barbis)
Etymology 2[edit]
From the above term, due to the fact that a beard represents a grown or mature man. Compare Romansh, Italian, and Piedmontese barba, Dalmatian buarba.
Noun[edit]
barbe m
See also[edit]
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
barbe f pl
Anagrams[edit]
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun[edit]
barbe f (plural barbes)
Descendants[edit]
- French: barbe
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun[edit]
barbe f (plural barbes)
Derived terms[edit]
- barbe d'gardîngni (“thin beard”)
- barbe d'la reine (“love-in-a-mist”, literally “queen's beard”)
- barbe d'sapeur (“thick beard”)
Related terms[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun[edit]
barbe f (oblique plural barbes, nominative singular barbe, nominative plural barbes)
Descendants[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
barbe
- Esperanto words suffixed with -e
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto adverbs
- eo:Face
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- fur:Family
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- nrf:Hair
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
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