barbel

See also: Bärbel

English

Alternative forms

• barble

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French barbel, from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːbəl/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bəl

Noun

barbel (plural barbels)

1. A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.
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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) (beġlu)
• Catalan: barb (ca) m
• Czech: parma (cs) f
• Dutch: barbeel (nl) m
• French: barbeau (fr) m
• German: Barbe (de)
• Ido: barbelo (io)
• Italian: barbio (it)
• Kazakh: қаяз (qaäz), сүген (sügen)
• Macedonian: мренка f (mrenka), мрена f (mrena)
• Polish: brzana (pl)
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• 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

• Italian: barbiglio (it) m
• Portuguese: barbilhão m, barbilho m
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Anagrams

• barble, rabble

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Old French

Etymology 1

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

Noun

barbel oblique singular, 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 oblique singular, 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. barbel (fish)

Descendants

• English: barbel
• French: barbeau

References

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