barba

From Latin barba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾba/
• Rhymes: -aɾba
• Syllabification: bar‧ba

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

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

From Latin barba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾba/, [ˈbaɾ.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾba
• Hyphenation: bar‧ba

barba f (plural barbes)

1. chin
2. beard
3. baleen

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbar.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈbaɾ.ba]

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

barba f (plural barbes)

1. chin

   Synonyms: mentó, barbó, barbeta

2. beard

• barbamec
• barber
• barbeta
• barbut

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

barba

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

• “barba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “barba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “barba” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “barba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

barba m (plural barben)

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) uncle

   De barben zeint zobia béetare. ― Uncles are like fathers.

• 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

• berba

From Latin barba.

barba f (plural barbe)

1. beard

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

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

From Latin barba.

barba f (plural barbi)

1. (Mirandola) beard

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarba]
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• Rhymes: -arba
• Hyphenation: bar‧ba

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

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

   Synonym: barbhava

• barbo (“beard”)

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barba

1. third-person singular past historic of barber

From Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾba/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞ɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾba
• Hyphenation: bar‧ba

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard
2. chin

   Synonym: barbadela

3. (ornithology) barb (of a feather)

• “barba”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

barba (plural barbas)

1. beard

• barbero

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

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

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)

• imberbe

• baffi m pl

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

barba m (plural barbi)

1. (northern Italy, Switzerland) uncle, protestant priest

   Synonym: zio

• → Greek: μπάρμπας (bármpas)
• → Mòcheno: barba

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/, [ˈbärbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/, [ˈbärbä]

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”). Since PIE *bʰ normally became [f] at the start of a Latin word, the initial [b] calls for some explanation. It is generally attributed to long-distance regressive assimilation in voicing and/or manner of articulation (e.g. *farb- > barb-).

De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *farβā on the assumption that Italian farfecchie is borrowed from a cognate word in another Italic language. If this reconstruction is correct, then the assimilation discussed above must have postdated the common Italic stage.

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

First-declension noun.

• (beard): barbitium

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

barba m (genitive barbae); first declension

1. Alternative form of barbās

First-declension noun.

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

Akin to Italian barba, from Latin.

barba f

1. beard

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

barba m

1. uncle

   Coordinate term: moa'm

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

From Latin barba.

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barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

From Latin barba.

barba m

1. uncle

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

• Hyphenation: bar‧ba

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

For quotations using this term, see Citations:barba.

• imberbe

• → Sranan Tongo: barba

• bigode

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarba]

barba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of barbă

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

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

barba m (plural barbas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) uncle

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

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

barba f (plural barbi)

1. Alternative form of varva

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾba/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -aɾba
• Syllabification: bar‧ba

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

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard
2. chin

   Synonyms: mentón, barbilla

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)

barba

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

• “barba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

barba

1. beard
   • 2002, “Anansi nanga a ston san abi barba”, in SIL - Languages of Suriname‎:

     Wan dei Anansi ben koiri ini a busi. Dan di ai koiri a si wan sani di noiti a ben si bifo: wan ston di abi barba.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)