barefoot

See also: Barefoot

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English barefote, barfot, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare +‎ foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹfʊt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛəfʊt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: barefoot

Adjective

barefoot (not comparable)

barefoot (1)

1. Wearing nothing on the feet.

   After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.

   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     CALIBAN:

     [...]

     His spirits hear me,

     And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch

     Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire,

     Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark

     Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but

     For every trifle are they set upon me,

     Sometimes like apes that now and chatter at me,

     And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which

     Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount

     Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I

     All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues

     Do hiss me into madness—

     [...]

2. (colloquial, of a vehicle on an icy road) not using snow chains.

Synonyms

• barefooted, discalced, shoeless, unshod, unshoed

Translations

wearing nothing on the feet

• Alemannic german: barfießich
• Arabic: حَافِي (ar) (ḥāfī), حَافٍ (ḥāfin) (indefinite)

  Egyptian Arabic: حافي (ḥāfi)

  Moroccan Arabic: حفيان m (ḥafyān)

• Armenian: բոբիկ (hy) (bobik)
• Aromanian: discultsu, discults
• Azerbaijani: ayaqyalın, yalınayaq, ayağı çılpaq
• Bashkir: ялан аяҡ (yalan ayaq)
• Breton: diarc'hen (br), divotoù (br)
• Bulgarian: бос (bg) (bos)
• Catalan: descalç (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤腳／赤脚 (zh) (chìjiǎo), 赤脚 (zh) (chìjiǎo), 光腳／光脚 (zh) (guāngjiǎo), 光脚 (zh) (guāngjiǎo)

• Corsican: scalzu (co)
• Czech: bosý (cs)
• Danish: barfodet
• Dutch: barrevoets (nl), blootsvoets (nl) (as adverb only)
• Esperanto: nudpieda (eo)
• Faroese: berføttur, berbeinaður, berleggjaður
• Finnish: paljasjalkainen (fi)
• French: pieds nus (fr)
• Friulian: discolç
• Galician: descalzo
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: barfuß (de), barfüßig
• Greek: ξυπόλυτος (el) (xypólytos), ανυπόδητος (el) (anypóditos)

  Ancient: ἀνυπόδητος (anupódētos)

• Hebrew: יחף (he) (yakhef)
• Hungarian: mezítlábas (hu)
• Icelandic: berfættur m
• Indonesian: telanjang kaki
• Interlingue:
• Irish: cosnochta
• Italian: scalzo (it) m
• Japanese: 裸足 (ja) (はだし, hadashi), 素足 (ja) (すあし, suashi)
• Kazakh: жалаңаяқ (jalañaäq)
• Korean: 맨발의 (maenbarui)
• Kurdish: , , , ,
• Ladin: deschëuz
• Luxembourgish: baarbes
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• Malay: kaki ayam
• Maltese: ħafi m, ħafja f, ħafjin pl
• Maori: kore hū
• Navajo: ké tʼáágééd
• Neapolitan: scauzo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barbeint

• Old English: bærfōt
• Persian: پابرهنه (fa) (pâberahne)
• Polish: bosy (pl)
• Portuguese: descalço (pt), descalça (pt) f
• Romanian: desculț (ro)
• Russian: босо́й (ru) (bosój), необу́тый (ru) (neobútyj), босоно́гий (ru) (bosonógij)
• Sardinian: iscultzu, isciurtzu, iscurtzu, iscúlciu, iscrutzu, iscursu, iscurtu
• Scots: barefit
• Scottish Gaelic: casruisgte
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бо̑с

  Roman: bȏs (sh)

• Sicilian: scàusu (scn)
• Slovene: bos (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: bósy, bósučki

• Spanish: descalzo (es), chuña (es) (El Salvador, Honduras), a pies pelados m
• Swedish: barfota (sv)
• Tagalog: yapak
• Tashelhit: ⵃⴼⵢⴰⵏ c (ḥfyæn)
• Tibetan: རྐང་རྗེན་མ (rkang rjen ma)
• Turkish: yalınayak
• Ukrainian: бо́сий (uk) (bósyj), босоно́гий (uk) (bosonóhyj)
• Uyghur: يالاڭئاياق (yalang'ayaq)
• Venetian: descalso, descalço, descals, descolzh, descolz
• Volapük: nüdafutik (vo)
• Walloon: a pîs dischås (wa), a pîs dschås (wa)
• Welsh: troednoeth
• Yiddish: באָרוועס (borves)

Adverb

barefoot (not comparable)

1. Wearing nothing on the feet.

   She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.

Translations

wearing nothing on the feet

• Albanian: zbathur (sq)
• Arabic: حافي القدمين
• Armenian: բոբիկ (hy) (bobik)
• Bashkir: ялан аяҡ (yalan ayaq)
• Basque: oin-has
• Breton: diarc'hen (br), divotoù (br)
• Bulgarian: бос (bg) (bos)
• Catalan: descalç (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤腳／赤脚 (zh) (chìjiǎo), 赤脚 (zh) (chìjiǎo)

• Czech: bosky
• Danish: barfodet
• Dutch: barrevoets (nl), blootsvoets (nl), op blote voeten
• Esperanto: nudpiede
• Finnish: paljain jaloin, avojaloin (fi)
• French: pieds nus (fr)
• Georgian: ფეხშიშველა (pexšišvela)
• German: barfuß (de), barfüßig
• Greek: ξυπόλητα (xypólita), ανυπόδετα (anypódeta)
• Hungarian: mezítláb (hu)
• Icelandic: berfættur, berum fótum
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• Interlingue:
• Irish: cosnochta
• Italian: scalzo (it) m
• Kazakh: жалаңаяқ (jalañaäq)
• Korean: 맨발로 (maenballo)
• Kurdish: , , , ,
• Ladin: deschëuz
• Malay: berkaki ayam
• Polish: boso (pl)
• Portuguese: descalço (pt)
• Romanian: desculț (ro)
• Russian: босико́м (ru) (bosikóm)
• Scottish Gaelic: casruisgte
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бо̑с, босо̀ног

  Roman: bȏs (sh), bosònog (sh)

• Swedish: barfota (sv)
• Turkish: yalınayak
• Ukrainian: босо́ніж (uk) (bosóniž)
• Uyghur: يالاڭئاياق (yalang'ayaq)
• Volapük: nüdafuto (vo), nüdafutiko

Derived terms

• barefooting
• the shoemaker's children go barefoot