barbel

See also: Bärbel

English

Alternative forms

• barble (obsolete)

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰardʰéh₂

From Middle English barbel, from Old French barbel, from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːbəl/

• Audio (southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bəl

Noun

barbel (plural barbels)

1. A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     The Barble fishes, if one of them chance to be engaged, will set the line against their backes, and with a fin they have, toothed like a sharp saw, presently saw and fret the same asunder.

2. (biology) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
3. A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.

Translations

fish

• Armenian: բեղլու (hy) (bełlu)
• Catalan: barb (ca) m
• Czech: parma (cs) f
• Dutch: barbeel (nl) m
• Finnish: barbi (fi)
• French: barbeau (fr) m
• Galician: barbo (gl) m
• German: Barbe (de)
• Hungarian: márna (hu)
• Ido: barbelo (io)
• Italian: barbio (it)
• Kazakh: қаяз (qaäz), сүген (sügen)
• Latin: barbus m
• Macedonian: мренка f (mrenka), мрена f (mrena)
• Polish: brzana (pl)
• Portuguese: barbo (pt) m
• Romanian: mreană (ro) f
• Russian: уса́ч (ru) m (usáč)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мре̏на f

  Roman: mrȅna (sh) f

• Spanish: barbo (es) m
• Swedish: barb c
• Walloon: bårbea (wa) m

whisker-like sensory organs of certain fish

• Galician: barbo (gl) m
• Hungarian: bajusz (hu)
• Indonesian: sungut (id)
• Irish: sprochaille f
• Italian: barbiglio (it) m
• Portuguese: barbilhão m, barbilho m

Anagrams

• Babler, barble, rabble

Indonesian

Etymology

From English barbell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbəl]
• Hyphenation: bar‧bêl

Noun

barbêl (first-person possessive barbelku, second-person possessive barbelmu, third-person possessive barbelnya)

1. (sports) barbell: a wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.

Further reading

• “barbel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Old French

Etymology 1

From barbe + -el, or by analogy from Latin barbula.

Noun

barbel m (oblique plural barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative singular barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative plural barbel)

1. barb (something which stands out with a sharp point)

Descendants

• French: barbelé

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus (“a type of fish”).

Noun

barbel m (oblique plural barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative singular barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative plural barbel)

2. barbel (fish)

Descendants

• French: barbeau
• Walloon: bårbea
• → English: barbel
• → Middle Dutch: barbeel
  • Dutch: barbeel

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (barbel)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbell.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bar‧bel
• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾbel/, [ˈbaɾ.bel]

Noun

barbel

1. barbell

   Synonym: pesas

Further reading

• “barbel”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018