barbershop

English

A barber cutting a boy's hair in a barbershop.

Alternative forms

barber shop, barber-shop, barber's shop, barber's

Etymology

Compound of barber +‎ shop.

Noun

barbershop (countable and uncountable, plural barbershops)

(countable) The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.
Synonym: (India) saloon
Hypernym: (UK) hairdresser's
Coordinate term: beauty parlor
(uncountable, music) A style of a capella vocal music, sung in four-part harmony, typically by a quartet of men.

Derived terms

barbershop quartet
barbershopper
barbershoppy

Translations

barber’s shop

Apache:
Western Apache: kaʼizhéh yudeʼ
Arabic: مَحَلّ لِلْحِلَاقَة‎ m (maḥall lilḥilāqa)
Azerbaijani: dəlləkxana, bərbərxana
Belarusian: цыру́льня f (cyrúlʹnja)
Bengali: সেলুন (bn) (selun)
Bulgarian: бръсна́рница f (brǎsnárnica)
Catalan: perruqueria
Chinese:
Cantonese: 飛髮鋪, 飞发铺 (fei¹ faat³ pou^3-2)
Mandarin: 理髮店／理发店 (zh) (lǐfàdiàn, lǐfǎdiàn)
Czech: holičství (cs) n, kadeřnický salon m
Danish: frisørsalon (da) c, barbersalon c
Dutch: kapsalon (nl) m
Estonian: juuksurisalong
Finnish: parturi (fi), parturiliike
French: salon de coiffure (fr) m
German: Friseurgeschäft n, Friseurladen (de) m, Herrenfriseurladen m, Friseursalon (de) m, Herrenfriseursalon m
Greek: κουρείο (el) n (koureío)
Ancient: κουρεῖον n (koureîon)
Haitian Creole: (boutik) kwafè
Hebrew: מִסְפָּרָה‎ (he) (mispara)
Hindi: सैलून (sailūn)
Hungarian: fodrászat (hu), fodrászüzlet (hu)
Indonesian: tempat cukur
Italian: barbieria (it) f, salone da parrucchiere m
Japanese: 理髪店 (りはつてん, rihatsuten), 床屋 (とこや, tokoya)
Kazakh: шаштараз (kk) (şaştaraz), шаштараз үйі (şaştaraz üiı)
Khmer: ផ្ទះកាត់សក់ (phtĕəh kat sɑk)
Korean: 이발소(理髮所) (ko) (ibalso), 리발소(理髮所) (ribalso) (North Korea), 미장원(美粧院) (ko) (mijang'won)
Kyrgyz: чачтарач (ky) (çaçtaraç), парикмахерская (parikmaherskaya)
Latin: tonstrīna f
Lezgi: дерлис (derlis)
Macedonian: бербе́рница f (berbérnica)
Norman: barbel'lie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: frisørsalong m
Nynorsk: frisørsalong m
Persian: سلمانی‎ (fa) (salmâni), آرایشگاه‎ (fa) (ârâyešgâh)
Polish: zakład fryzjerski m
Portuguese: salão de cabeleireiro/cabeleireira m, barbearia (pt) f
Russian: парикма́херская (ru) f (parikmáxerskaja), барбершо́п (ru) m (barberšóp) (neologism)
Slovak: kaderníctvo n
Slovene: frizerski salon m
Spanish: peluquería (es) f, barbería f
Swedish: frisersalong (sv) c
Tagalog: pagupitan
Tajik: сартарошхона (sartarošxona), салмонӣ (salmonī), ороишгоҳ (oroyišgoh)
Turkish: berber (tr)
Ukrainian: перука́рня f (perukárnja), голя́рня f (holjárnja)
Uyghur: ساتىراشخانا‎ (satirashxana)
Uzbek: sartaroshxona (uz), sartaroshlik (uz)
Vietnamese: hiệu cắt tóc
Volapük: jeiföp (vo)

Verb

barbershop (third-person singular simple present barbershops, present participle barbershopping, simple past and past participle barbershopped)

(transitive, intransitive) To perform in the barbershop musical style.