barbel

• barble (obsolete)

From Middle English barbel, from Old French barbel, from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːbəl/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːɹbəl/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bəl

barbel (plural barbels)

1. A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     The Barble fishes, if one of them chance to be engaged, will set the line against their backes, and with a fin they have, toothed like a sharp saw, presently saw and fret the same asunder.

2. (biology) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
3. A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.

• barbel steed

• Babler, barble, rabble

From English barbell.

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

barbêl (plural barbel-barbel)

1. (sports) barbell: a wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter

• “barbel” 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 barbe + -el, or by analogy from Latin barbula.

barbel oblique singular, m (oblique plural barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative singular barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative plural barbel)

1. barb (something which stands out with a sharp point)

• French: barbelé

From Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus (“a type of fish”).

barbel oblique singular, m (oblique plural barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative singular barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative plural barbel)

2. barbel (fish)

• French: barbeau
• Walloon: bårbea
• → English: barbel
• → Middle Dutch: barbeel
  • Dutch: barbeel

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (barbel)

Borrowed from English barbell.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾbel/ [ˈbaɾ.bɛl]
• Rhymes: -aɾbel
• Syllabification: bar‧bel

barbel (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔ᜊᜒᜎ᜔)

1. barbell

   Synonym: pesas

• “barbel”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018