barber

See also: Barber and barbēr

English

A barber cuts hair on the streets of Harbin, China.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman barbour, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin barba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.bə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)

Noun

barber (plural barbers)

1. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
3. (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.

Synonyms

• hairdresser, hair-dresser
• hairstylist, hair-stylist

Derived terms

Terms derived from barber (noun)

• barber's itch
• barber pole / barber's pole

• barbershop
• barber surgeon

Translations

person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards

• Albanian: berber (sq) m
• Arabic: حَلَّاق m (ḥallāq)

  Egyptian Arabic: حلاق m (ḥallāʾ)

• Armenian: վարսավիր (hy) (varsavir), սափրիչ (hy) (sapʻričʻ)
• Aromanian: barber m
• Azerbaijani: bərbər (az), dəllək (az)
• Belarusian: цыру́льнік m (cyrúlʹnik)
• Bulgarian: бръснар m (brǎsnar), фризьор m (frizjor), фризьорка f (frizjorka)
• Catalan: barber (ca) m
• Chechen: ларгант (largant)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 理髮師／理发师 (zh) (lǐfàshī), 理发师 (zh) (lǐfǎshī)

• Chukchi: инэнимэтыльын (inėnimėtylʹyn)
• Czech: holič (cs) m, lazebník (cs) m, bradýř (cs) m (hist.), kadeřník (cs) m
• Dalmatian: burbur m
• Dutch: kapper (nl) m, haarkapper (nl) m, coiffeur (nl) m (Flanders), barbier (nl) m (deprecated)
• Esperanto: barbiro (eo)
• Finnish: parturi (fi), hiustenleikkaaja (fi)
• French: coiffeur (fr) m, coiffeuse (fr) f, barbier (fr) m
• Georgian: დალაქი (dalaki), მკრეჭავი (mḳreč̣avi), პარიკმახერი (ṗariḳmaxeri)
• German: Barbier (de) m, Bartschneider m, Bartscherer m
• Greek: κουρέας (el) m (kouréas)

  Ancient: κουρεύς m (koureús)

• Haitian Creole: kwafè
• Hebrew: סַפָּר (he) m (sapár), ספרית f (saparit)
• Hindi: नाई (hi) m (nāī)
• Hungarian: borbély (hu)
• Icelandic: rakari m, bartskeri m
• Indonesian: barbir (id), tukang cukur
• Interlingue:
• Italian: barbiere (it) m, parrucchiere (it) m
• Japanese: 理髪師 (ja) (りはつし, rihatsushi), 床屋 (とこや, tokoya)
• Kamba: kinyozi
• Kazakh: шаштараз (kk) (şaştaraz)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Kikuyu: kinyothi
• Korean: 이발사 (ko) (ibalsa), 리발사 (ribalsa) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: чачтарач (ky) (cactarac), парикмахер (parikmaher)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ຊ່າງຕັດຜົມ (sāng tat phom)
• Latin: tonsor (la) m, tonstrix f
• Luhya: kinyozi
• Luo: kinyozi
• Macedonian: бербер m (berber)
• Maltese: barbier m, barbiera f
• Maori: kaikuti makawe
• Mopan Maya: ajk'o'os
• Norman: barbyi m
• Persian: سرتراش (sartarâš)
• Polish: fryzjer (pl) m, balwierz (pl) m, golarz (pl) m, fryzjerka (pl) f
• Portuguese: barbeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: bărbier (ro) m, frizer (ro) m, coafor (ro) m
• Russian: парикма́хер (ru) m (parikmáxer), брадобре́й (ru) m (bradobréj), цирю́льник (ru) m (cirjúlʹnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брица m

  Roman: brica (sh) m

• Slovak: holič (sk) m, kaderník f
• Slovene: brivec (sl) m
• Spanish: barbero m
• Swahili: kinyozi (sw)
• Swedish: frisör (sv) c, barberare (sv) c
• Tagalog: barbero
• Tajik: сартарош (sartaroš)
• Telugu: క్షురకుడు (te) (kṣurakuḍu), మంగలి (te) (maṅgali)
• Thai: กัลบก (th) (gan-lá-bòk), ช่างตัดผม (châang-dtàt-pǒm)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: بربر (berber), پروكار (perukâr), صقال كسن (sakal kesen)

  Modern Turkish: berber (tr), perukâr (tr) (obsolete), sakal kesen

• Turkmen: dellek
• Ukrainian: перука́р m (perukár), перука́рка f (perukárka)
• Uzbek: sartarosh (uz)
• Venetian: peruchièr m
• Vietnamese: thợ cắt tóc
• Volapük: (♂♀) jeifan (vo), (♂) hijeifan, (♀) jijeifan
• West Frisian: skearbaas
• Yiddish: שערער m (sherer), שערערין f (shererin)

Verb

barber (third-person singular simple present barbers, present participle barbering, simple past and past participle barbered)

1. To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
2. (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 29:

     ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

Translations

to cut the hair

• Arabic: حلاقَة
• Bulgarian: подстригвам (bg) (podstrigvam)
• Dutch: haarknippen, haren knippen, scheren (to shave)
• Finnish: parturoida, leikata hiukset
• German: frisieren (de), Haare schneiden
• Greek: κουρεύω (el) (kourévo)
• Hebrew: סיפר (he) (sipér)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: стриже (striže), берберису́ва (berberisúva)
• Portuguese: barbear (pt), cortar cabelo
• Romanian: bărbieri (ro) (to shave), tunde (ro)
• Swedish: klippa (sv), barbera (sv)
• Telugu: క్షవరం చేయు (kṣavaraṁ cēyu), జుత్తు కత్తరించు (juttu kattariñcu)
• Vietnamese: cắt tóc, cạo mặt

Anagrams

• Barbre

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Catalan

Etymology

From barba +‎ -er.

Noun

barber m (plural barbers, feminine barbera)

1. barber

Further reading

• “barber” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Etymology

From barbe +‎ -er; compare with familiar sense of raser which was its original meaning in Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.be/

• Audio:

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Verb

barber

1. (familiar) to bore someone
   • Le fait est qu'il ne perd aucune occasion de nous barber avec ses expériences dramatiques. (Claudel, Le Ravissement de Scapin, 1952)

Conjugation

Conjugation of barber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	barber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	barbant /baʁ.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		barbé /baʁ.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	barbe /baʁb/	barbes /baʁb/	barbe /baʁb/	barbons /baʁ.bɔ̃/	barbez /baʁ.be/	barbent /baʁb/
	imperfect	barbais /baʁ.bɛ/	barbais /baʁ.bɛ/	barbait /baʁ.bɛ/	barbions /baʁ.bjɔ̃/	barbiez /baʁ.bje/	barbaient /baʁ.bɛ/
	past historic2	barbai /baʁ.be/	barbas /baʁ.ba/	barba /baʁ.ba/	barbâmes /baʁ.bam/	barbâtes /baʁ.bat/	barbèrent /baʁ.bɛʁ/
	future	barberai /baʁ.bə.ʁe/	barberas /baʁ.bə.ʁa/	barbera /baʁ.bə.ʁa/	barberons /baʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/	barberez /baʁ.bə.ʁe/	barberont /baʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	barberais /baʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	barberais /baʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	barberait /baʁ.bə.ʁɛ/	barberions /baʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	barberiez /baʁ.bə.ʁje/	barberaient /baʁ.bə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	barbe /baʁb/	barbes /baʁb/	barbe /baʁb/	barbions /baʁ.bjɔ̃/	barbiez /baʁ.bje/	barbent /baʁb/
	imperfect2	barbasse /baʁ.bas/	barbasses /baʁ.bas/	barbât /baʁ.ba/	barbassions /baʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/	barbassiez /baʁ.ba.sje/	barbassent /baʁ.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	barbe /baʁb/	—	barbons /baʁ.bɔ̃/	barbez /baʁ.be/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• barbant

References

• “barber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

• “barber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

barber

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of barbere