barba

See also: Appendix:Variations of "barba"

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

beard

References

Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “barba”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

chin
beard
baleen

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.bə/

(Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.ba/

Etymology 1

From Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

chin
Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta
beard

Derived terms

barbamec
barber
barbeta
barbut

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

barba

third-person singular present indicative form of barbar
second-person singular imperative form of barbar

Cimbrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian barba (“paternal uncle”), from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m (plural barben)

(Sette Comuni, Luserna) uncle
De barben zeint zobia béetare. ― Uncles are like fathers.

References

Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
“barba” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Corsican

Alternative forms

berba

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbe)

beard

References

“barba” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Emilian

Alternative forms

bärba (Parmigiano)
berba (Carpigiano)
bèrba (Bolognese)

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

(Mirandola) beard

Esperanto

Etymology

From barbo (“beard”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Adjective

barba (accusative singular barban, plural barbaj, accusative plural barbajn)

of or related to beards
(of people) having a beard, beardy

Synonyms

(bearded): barbhava

Related terms

barbo (“beard”)

French

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Verb

barba

third-person singular past historic of barber

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

beard
chin
Synonym: barbadela
(ornithology) barb (of a feather)

Interlingua

Noun

barba (plural barbas)

beard

Related terms

barbero

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/
Rhymes: -arba
Hyphenation: bàr‧ba

Etymology 1

From Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Noun

barba f (plural barbe, diminutive barbétta or barbettìna; barbìna or (more common) barbìno m; barbicèlla or barbicìna or barbolìna, augmentative barbóna or (more common) barbóne m, pejorative barbàccia, derogatory barbùccia)

beard
(botany) root, rootlet
(zoology) barb
(colloquial) bore, drag, yawn (an event or action which is boring)

Derived terms

barbabietola
Barbarossa
barbone
barboso
barbuto

Related terms

imberbe

Etymology 2

From the above term, from the fact that a beard represents a grown man.

Noun

barba m (plural barbi)

(northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle, protestant priest
Synonym: zio

Descendants

→ Greek: μπάρμπας (bármpas)
→ Mòcheno: barba

Latin

barba (beard)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/, [ˈbärbä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/, [ˈbärbä]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”). An initial */f-/ would have been expected, thus the initial /b-/ is presumed to be the outcome of assimilation with the following /-b-/.

Noun

barba f (genitive barbae); first declension

beard (facial hair)
Barba nōn facit philosophum.
A beard does not make a philosopher.
Videō barbam et pallium; philosophum nōndum videō.
I see a beard and cloak; a philosopher I don’t yet see.
(figuratively) wool, down on a plant

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	barba	barbae
Genitive	barbae	barbārum
Dative	barbae	barbīs
Accusative	barbam	barbās
Ablative	barbā	barbīs
Vocative	barba	barbae

Synonyms

(beard): barbitium

Derived terms

barbā tenus sapiēns
barbātōria
barbātus
barbescō
barbiger
barbiō
barbitium
barbula
barbus
imberbis
malebarbis

Descendants

Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: barbã
- Istro-Romanian: borbĕ
- Romanian: barbă
Franco-Provençal: bârba
Gallo-Romance
- Emilian: barba
- Ligurian: bàrba
- Lombard: barba
- Piedmontese: barba
Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: barba
- Italian: barba
- Dalmatian: buarba
- Sicilian: varva, barba, varba
Occitano-Romance
- Catalan: barba
- Occitan: barba
Oïl
- Old French: barbe
  - Middle French: barbe
    - French: barbe
- Old Northern French: barbe
  - Norman: barbe
  - Walloon: båbe
  - Anglo-Norman: barbe
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: barbe
- Romansch: barba
Sardinian: balba, barba, balva
Venetian: barba
- ⇒ Venetian: barbièr (“barber”)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: بربر‎ (berber) (see there for further descendants)
West Iberian
- Aragonese: barba
- Asturian: barba
- Old Portuguese: barva
  - Galician: barba
  - Portuguese: barba
    - → Sranan Tongo: barba
- Spanish: barba
→ Proto-Brythonic: *barv
- Breton: barv
- Cornish: barv
- Welsh: barf

References

De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 69

Etymology 2

A variant form of the Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m (genitive barbae); first declension

Alternative form of barbās

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	barba	barbae
Genitive	barbae	barbārum
Dative	barbae	barbīs
Accusative	barbam	barbās
Ablative	barbā	barbīs
Vocative	barba	barbae

References

“barba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“barba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
2. BARBA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
“barba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“barba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian barba, from Latin.

Noun

barba f

beard

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian barba, from Medieval Latin barbās (“paternal uncle”).

Noun

barba m

uncle
Coordinate term: moa'm

References

“barba” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

beard

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba m

uncle

Portuguese

barba

Etymology

From Old Portuguese barba, barva, from Latin barba (“beard”), from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.bɐ/ [ˈbaɦ.bɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.bɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ.bɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɻ.ba/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ.bɐ/ [ˈbaɾ.βɐ]

Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

beard

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:barba.

Related terms

imberbe

Descendants

→ Sranan Tongo: barba

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈbarba]

Noun

barba f

definite nominative/accusative singular of barbă

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰ-eh₂- (compare English beard). Compare meaning of "uncle" to Friulian barbe, Italian barba, Dalmatian buarba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

beard

Noun

barba m (plural barbas)

(Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) uncle

Synonyms

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) aug
(Sutsilvan) oc, ô

Coordinate terms

(with regards to gender):
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) onda
- (Vallader) anda
- (Puter, Vallader) tanta

Sicilian

Noun

barba f (plural barbi)

Alternative form of varva

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾba/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞a]
Audio (Colombia) (file)
Rhymes: -aɾba
Syllabification: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

beard
chin
Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

Noun

barba m (plural barbas)

beardy, bearded man
(archaic) the part of an old man (in a play)
(archaic) the villain (of a play)

Derived terms

a barba regalada
andar con la barba por el suelo
barba a barba
barba cerrada
barba de cabra
barba de chivo
barba de tres días
barba partida
barbas de ballena
barbería
barbero
barbijo
barbilla
barbón
barbudo
echar a las barbas
hacer la barba
por barba
subirse a las barbas
tirarse de las barbas

Related terms

imberbe

Verb

barba

inflection of barbar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

Noun

barba

beard

barba

Aragonese

Etymology

Noun

References

Asturian

Etymology

Noun

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

Further reading

Cimbrian

Etymology

Noun

References

Corsican

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

References

Emilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Esperanto

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Synonyms

Related terms

French

Pronunciation

Verb

Galician

Etymology

Noun

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

Related terms

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

Descendants

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

References

Lombard

Etymology

Noun

Mòcheno

Etymology

Noun

References

Occitan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Piedmontese