barbe
Esperanto
Etymology
barbo (“beard”) + -e (“adverb”)
Adverb
barbe
- in the manner of beards, beardically
Related terms
- barbo (“beard”)
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
barbe f (plural barbes)
- beard
- 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)
- Yesterday I was looking at the bust of a philanthropist; it was a half-bald head, a pointy beard, and the look of a sous-chef at his office.
- longer hair growing on the chin or face of some animals
- La barbe d’une chèvre, d’un bouc.
- The beard of a goat, of a billygoat.
- barbel, whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon.
- Les barbes du brochet.
- The barbels of the pike.
- (feather) barb
- Le duvet est constitué de petites plumes légères dont les barbes ne sont pas enchevêtrées.
- The duvet is made of small, light feathers whose barbs are not tangled.
- (botany) barb, hair or bristle.
- 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 !
- What a bore!
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Italian barbero, barbaro.
Adjective
barbe (plural barbes)
- (horse) Barbary
- un cheval barbe.
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Noun
barbe m (plural barbes)
- Barbary horse
- 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
Verb
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
- “barbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “barbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbis)
Etymology 2
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
barbe m
See also
Italian
Noun
barbe f pl
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbes)
Descendants
- French: barbe
Norman
Etymology
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbes)
Derived terms
- barbe d'gardîngni (“thin beard”)
- barbe d'la reine (“love-in-a-mist”, literally “queen's beard”)
- barbe d'sapeur (“thick beard”)
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Old French
Etymology
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe oblique singular, f (oblique plural barbes, nominative singular barbe, nominative plural barbes)
Descendants
Spanish
Verb
barbe
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