barber

From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.bə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)

barber (plural barbers)

1. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.

   Synonyms: haircutter, hairdresser, hairstylist, tonsor (obsolete)

   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:

     There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.

2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
3. (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.

• → Indonesian: barber
• → Polish: barber

barber (third-person singular simple present barbers, present participle barbering, simple past and past participle barbered)

1. To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
2. (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 29:

     ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

• Barbre

• birber

barber m (plural barberi)

1. barber (profession)

• barbirii / barbirie

From barba +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bərˈbe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [baɾˈbeɾ]

barber m (plural barbers, feminine barbera)

1. barber

• “barber” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From barbe +‎ -er; compare with familiar sense of raser which was its original meaning in Old French.

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.be/

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barber

1. (informal) to bore someone
   • Le fait est qu'il ne perd aucune occasion de nous barber avec ses expériences dramatiques. (Claudel, Le Ravissement de Scapin, 1952)

• barbant

• “barber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• “barber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English barber, Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbar.bər]
• Hyphenation: bar‧bêr

barber (first-person possessive barberku, second-person possessive barbermu, third-person possessive barbernya)

1. (colloquial) barber (a person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards)

   Synonyms: tukang cukur, pemangkas rambut

• barbir

• “barber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

barber

1. imperative of barbere

Borrowed from English barber, from Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe, from Latin barba. Doublet of balwierz and broda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bɛr/
• Rhymes: -arbɛr
• Syllabification: bar‧ber

barber m pers (female equivalent barberka)

1. barber (person whose profession is cutting male customers' hair and beards)

• barber in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• barber in Polish dictionaries at PWN