barbut

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.bət/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹ.bət/, /ˈbɑɹ.bʌt/

barbut (plural barbuts)

1. Alternative form of barbute (“helmet”)
   • 1973, The Scottish Art Review:

     The barbut helmet and right gauntlet are contemporary, but do not belong; the left gauntlet is modern. Acquired from Schloss Churburg by W. R. Hearst in 1928, from whom bought by R. L. Scott in 1938.

   • 2006, S. M. Stirling, The Protector's War, Penguin, →ISBN, page 106:

     Getting a shaft through the T-slit of the barbut helm was . . . You'd have to be dead lucky, as Sam would say.

   • 2010, Fred Saberhagen, Empire of the East, Macmillan, →ISBN:

     His garments and his helm and shield were black and red; he held his sword out in a half-extended arm, so that the point was scarce a meter from Rolf's heart. The warrior's face was hidden in a barbut helm, black ...

   • 2010, Dr Breda Lynch, A Monastic Landscape: The Cistercians in Medieval Ireland, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

     ... the most important part of the armour is the barbut helmet, one of the only two known examples from Ireland and the Jerpoint example appears to be the earliest.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *barbūtus. By surface analysis, barba +‎ -ut.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bərˈbut]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [baɾˈbut]

barbut (feminine barbuda, masculine plural barbuts, feminine plural barbudes)

1. bearded

barbut m (plural barbuts)

1. barbet (various species of birds in the infraorder Ramphastides)

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

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باربود (barbut).

barbut n (plural barbuturi)

1. craps