barba

See also: Appendix:Variations of "barba"

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

References

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
  2. beard
  3. baleen

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

barba f (plural barbes)

  1. chin
    Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta
  2. beard
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

barba

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

Further reading

Cimbrian

Etymology

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

Noun

barba m (plural barben)

  1. (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

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbe)

  1. 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)

  1. (Mirandola) beard

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

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

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

Synonyms
  • (bearded): barbhava

French

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Verb

barba

  1. third-person singular past historic of barber

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonym: barbadela
  3. (ornithology) barb (of a feather)

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

barba (plural barbas)

  1. beard

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)

  1. beard
  2. (botany) root, rootlet
  3. (zoology) barb
  4. (colloquial) bore, drag, yawn (an event or action which is boring)
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

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

Noun

barba m (plural barbi)

  1. (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle, protestant priest
    Synonym: zio
Descendants
  • → Greek: μπάρμπας (bármpas)
  • → Mòcheno: barba

Latin
barba (beard)

Pronunciation

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

  1. 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.
  2. (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
Descendants

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

  1. 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

  1. beard

Mòcheno

Etymology

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

Noun

barba m

  1. uncle
    Coordinate term: moa'm

References

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin barba.

Noun

barba m

  1. 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]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbaɾ.bɐ/ [ˈbaɾ.βɐ]

  • Hyphenation: bar‧ba

Noun

barba f (plural barbas)

  1. beard

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:barba.

Descendants

See also

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbarba]

Noun

barba f

  1. 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)

  1. beard

Noun

barba m (plural barbas)

  1. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. beard
  2. chin
    Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

Noun

barba m (plural barbas)

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

Derived terms

Verb

barba

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

Further reading

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

Noun

barba

  1. beard
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