barbe
French
noun
Definitions
- beard
- longer hair growing on the chin or face of some animals
- barbel whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish
- barb feather
- (botany) barb hair or bristle
- (colloquial) a boring thing
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French barbe inherited from Old French barbe (beard, beard-like element) inherited from Latin barba (beard, a beard) inherited from Proto-Italic *farβā inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (beard).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰardʰeh₂
Gloss
beard
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
髭
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- barb English
- barbal English
- barbet English
- barbette English
- *barbutus Latin
- *barbūtus Latin
- barba Latin
- barbiger Latin
- barbula Latin
- imberbis Latin
- Barbier German
- barba Italian
- barber French
- barbette French
- barbiche French
- barbichette French
- barbier French
- barbifier French
- barbifère French
- barbière French
- barbotage French
- barbote French
- barboter French
- barboteur French
- barbouzard French
- barbouze French
- barbouzerie French
- barbu French
- imberbe French
- la French
- la barbe French
- abarbetar Spanish, Castilian
- barba Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰardʰ-eh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰardʰeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰardʰéh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bardaz Proto-Germanic
- *borda Proto-Slavic
- barbe Old French
- barbeor Old French
- barbiro Esperanto
- barbă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bărbie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- barbe Norman
- barbiche Norman
- barbu Norman
- barbe Middle French
- borbeter Middle French
- barba Old Portuguese
- barbã Aromanian
- bãrbutã Aromanian
- abarbar Occitan
- barba Occitan
- *farβā Proto-Italic
- barba Romansh
- barba Asturian
- barbe Friulian
- barba Old Occitan
- barba Sicilian
- varba Sicilian
- varva Sicilian
- *bardā́ˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- bàrba Ligurian
- buarba Dalmatian
- bab Haitian, Haitian Creole
- labarb Mauritian Creole
- *barv Proto-Brythonic
- labarb Seychellois Creole
- barba Piedmontese
- barba Emilian
- berba Emilian
- bèrba Emilian
- borbĕ Istro-Romanian