barba

From Latin barba.

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

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “barba”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin barba.

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

barba f (plural barbes)

1. chin
2. beard
3. baleen

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “barba”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “barba”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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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

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “barba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “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 Venetan 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
• Syllabification: 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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂, possibly from *bʰers-.

• 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, 2012–2026

barba (plural barbas)

1. beard

• barbero

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba/^[1]
• 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 (“beard”) or barbettìna (“beard”); barbìna (“beard”) or (more common) barbìno m (“beard”); barbicèlla (“root”) or barbicìna (“root”) or barbolìna (“root”), augmentative barbóna (“beard”) or (more common) barbóne m (“beard”), pejorative barbàccia (“beard”), derogatory barbùccia (“beard”))

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 Medieval Latin barbās, from barba (“the beard”), 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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbar.ba]

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 (perhaps from earlier *farðā) on the assumption that Italian farfecchie (“moustache”) 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)

   Synonym: barbitium

   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.

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.366–367:

     […] Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis,
     Interea toto non setius aere ningit.

     […] hoarfrost clings to their uncombed, shaggy beards while the whole sky keeps on sheding snow.

2. (figuratively) wool, down on a plant

First-declension noun.

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, 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^[2], 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

• barva

Inherited from Latin barba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂, possibly from *bʰers-.

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

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

   Synonym: granhon

• Fala: barba, balba
• Galician: barba
• Portuguese: barba

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “barba”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “barba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “barva”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “barba”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

From Latin barba.

barba m

1. uncle

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese barba, from Latin barba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂, possibly from *bʰers-.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁbɐ, (Portugal) -aɾbɐ
• Hyphenation: bar‧ba

barba f (plural barbas)

1. beard

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:barba.

• → Sranan Tongo: barba
  • Aukan: baiba

• “barba”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “barba”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “barba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “barba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• 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]

• Audio (Colombia):

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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”). Compare English barber.

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Portuguese barba.

• IPA^(key): /baɾba/, [ba̠ɾba̠], [bɑ̟ɾbɑ̟]

barba

1. beard
   • 2002, SIL, “Anansi nanga a ston san abi barba”, in Languages of Suriname‎^[3], Sranan Tongo Library:

     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)

• Aukan: baiba