barbe
Esperanto
Etymology
barbo (“beard”) + -e (“adverb”)
Adverb
barbe
- in the manner of beards, beardically
Related terms
- barbo (“beard”)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baʁb/
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Etymology 1
From Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe, from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).
Noun
barbe f (plural barbes)
- beard
- 1910, Alain, Propos:
- Je regardais hier le buste d'un philanthrope ; c'était une tête à moitié chauve, une barbe en pointe, et l'air d'un sous-chef à son bureau.
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- Il a une barbe bien fournie. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Je vais peut-être me laisser pousser la barbe. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Certaines personnes mettent plusieurs années avant d'obtenir une barbe dure, d'autres n'y parvenant jamais.
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- longer hair growing on the chin or face of some animals
- La barbe d'une chèvre, d'un bouc.
- The beard of a goat, of a billygoat.
- barbel (whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish)
- Les barbes du brochet.
- The barbels of the pike.
- barb (feather)
- Le duvet est constitué de petites plumes légères dont les barbes ne sont pas enchevêtrées.
- The duvet is made of small, light feathers whose barbs are not tangled.
- (botany) barb (hair or bristle)
- 1858, Théophile Gautier, Le Roman de la momie:
- La besogne des bœufs terminée, vinrent des serviteurs qui, armés d'écopes de bois, élevaient le blé en l'air et le laissaient retomber pour le séparer des pailles, des barbes et des cosses.
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- (colloquial) a boring thing, a drag
- Quelle barbe ! ― What a bore!
Derived terms
- barbe à papa
- barbe de trois jours
- la barbe
- sainte barbe
- au nez et à la barbe
- dans sa barbe
- parler dans sa barbe
- rire dans sa barbe
Related terms
- barbant
- barbeau
- barbelé
- barbeler
- barbelet
- barbelure
- barber
- barberie
- barberon
- barbet
- barbette
- barbiche
- barbichet
- barbichette
- barbichon
- barbier
- barbifier
- barbille
- barbillon
- barbiste
- barbitiste
- barbiton
- barbouze
- barbu
- barbute
- ébarber
- imberbee
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Italian barbero, barbaro.
Adjective
barbe (plural barbes)
- (horse) Barbary
- un cheval barbe.
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Noun
barbe m (plural barbes)
- Barbary horse
- Les barbes d'Abaco sont une toute petite population de chevaux barbes espagnols sauvages sur l'île d'Abaco.
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Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
barbe
- inflection of barber:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “barbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
barbe on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbis)
- beard
Etymology 2
From the above term, due to the fact that a beard represents a grown or mature man. Compare Romansh, Italian, and Piedmontese barba, Dalmatian buarba.
Noun
barbe m
- uncle
See also
- agne
Italian
Noun
barbe f pl
- plural of barba
Anagrams
- ebbra
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbes)
- beard
Descendants
- French: barbe
Norman
Etymology
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbes)
- (Jersey) beard
- (Jersey) eaves
Derived terms
- barbe d'gardîngni (“thin beard”)
- barbe d'la reine (“love-in-a-mist”, literally “queen's beard”)
- barbe d'sapeur (“thick beard”)
Related terms
- barbiche
Old French
Etymology
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (oblique plural barbes, nominative singular barbe, nominative plural barbes)
- beard
Derived terms
- barbier
- French: barbier (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Dutch: barbier
- Dutch: barbier (see there for further descendants)
- Anglo-Norman: barbour (see there for further descendants)
Descendants
- Middle French: barbe
- French: barbe
- Jersey Norman: barbe
- Walloon: båbe
Spanish
Verb
barbe
- inflection of barbar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative