barbo

See also: Barbo and barbó

Catalan

Verb

barbo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of barbar

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, from Latin barba. Distantly related to barto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbo]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arbo
• Hyphenation: bar‧bo

Noun

barbo (accusative singular barbon, plural barboj, accusative plural barbojn)

1. beard

   Meronym: haro (“a hair”)

   • 2002 February, GMA, “Irlandaj sikoj razas sin”, in Monato, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17:

     Tiele, la sikaj viroj malĝoje ĉesas surporti turbanon kaj unuafoje en la vivo vizitas barbirojn por fortondigi la hararon kaj barbon.

     Therefore, the Sikh men unhappily stop wearing turbans and, for the first time in their lives, visit barbers to cut off their hair and beards.

Derived terms

• barba (“beardy”)
• barbhava (“bearded”)
• barbisto (“barber”)
• senbarba (“beardless”)

 

See also

• lipharoj, liphararo (“mustache”)

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1590. From Latin barbus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɾβʊ]

Noun

barbo m (plural barbos)

1. barbel
   • 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     Pois non trato
     do peixe que foi barato:
     tanto barbo e lengoado
     e doutro peije preziado
     que sobraba o can y o gato
     

     I wont speak
     of the fish which was cheap
     so much barbel and sole
     and of other prized fish,
     that dog and cat were more than enough

2. red mullet
3. (in the plural) dewlap; barbel

References

• “barbo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “barbo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “barbo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bo/
• Rhymes: -arbo
• Hyphenation: bàr‧bo

Noun

barbo m (plural barbi)

1. barbel (freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.bu/ [ˈbaɦ.bu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.bu/ [ˈbaɦ.bu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.bu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.bu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɻ.bo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.bu/ [ˈbaɾ.βu]

• Rhymes: -aɾbu
• Hyphenation: bar‧bo

Noun

barbo m (plural barbos)

1. barbel (any freshwater fish of the genus Barbus)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbo]

Noun

barbo f

1. vocative singular of barbă

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾbo/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɾbo
• Syllabification: bar‧bo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin barbus, from Latin barba (“beard”).

Noun

barbo m (plural barbos)

1. barbel

Etymology 2

Verb

barbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of barbar

Further reading

• “barbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014