barbar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bərˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baɾˈbaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Homophone: barbà

barbar (first-person singular present barbo, first-person singular preterite barbí, past participle barbat)

1. to beard (to grow hair on the chin and jaw)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbar]

barbar m anim

1. barbarian
2. philistine (uncultured person)

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).

• IPA^(key): /barbaːr/, [b̥ɑˈb̥ɑːˀ]

barbar c (singular definite barbaren, plural indefinite barbarer)

1. barbarian (an uncivilized person)

From Dutch barbaar, from Middle Dutch barbaer, from barbarien, from Old French barbare, from Latin barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros). Cognate of Arabic بَرْبَر (barbar).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbar]
• Hyphenation: bar‧bar

barbar (comparative lebih barbar, superlative paling barbar)

1. barbaric, uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth

barbar (plural barbar-barbar)

1. barbarian

• “barbar” 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.

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”).

barbar m (definite singular barbaren, indefinite plural barbarer, definite plural barbarene)

1. a barbarian

• barbarisk

• “barbar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”).

barbar m (definite singular barbaren, indefinite plural barbarar, definite plural barbarane)

1. a barbarian

• barbarisk

• “barbar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French barbare. Doublet of varvar.

barbar m (plural barbari, feminine equivalent barbară)

1. barbarian

• bȁrbarin (Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro)
• varvarin (Bosnia, Serbia)

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).

• IPA^(key): /bǎrbar/
• Hyphenation: bar‧bar

bàrbar m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба̀рбар)

1. barbarian

• “barbar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From barba +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /baɾˈbaɾ/ [baɾˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bar‧bar

barbar (first-person singular present barbo, first-person singular preterite barbé, past participle barbado)

1. (intransitive) to beard (to grow hair on the chin and jaw)

• “barbar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros).

barbar c

1. barbarian (an uncivilized person)

• barbarisk

Borrowed from French barbare, from Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”), from barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”), possibly onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /baɾˈbaɾ/

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barbar

1. barbarian (uncivilized)