barbo

barbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of barbar

Common Romance, from Latin barba. Distantly related to barto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarbo/

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• Rhymes: -arbo
• Hyphenation: bar‧bo

barbo (accusative singular barbon, plural barboj, accusative plural barbojn)

1. beard

   Meronym: haro (“a hair”)

   • 2002 February, GMA, “Irlandaj sikoj razas sin”, in Monato, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17:

     Tiele, la sikaj viroj malĝoje ĉesas surporti turbanon kaj unuafoje en la vivo vizitas barbirojn por fortondigi la hararon kaj barbon.

     Therefore, the Sikh men unhappily stop wearing turbans and, for the first time in their lives, visit barbers to cut off their hair and beards.

• lipharoj, liphararo (“mustache”)

Attested since circa 1590. From Latin barbus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɾβʊ]

barbo m (plural barbos)

1. barbel
   • 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     Pois non trato
     do peixe que foi barato:
     tanto barbo e lengoado
     e doutro peije preziado
     que sobraba o can y o gato
     

     I wont speak
     of the fish which was cheap
     so much barbel and sole
     and of other prized fish,
     that dog and cat were more than enough

2. red mullet
3. (in the plural) dewlap; barbel

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “barbo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “barbo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “barbo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin barbus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bo/
• Rhymes: -arbo
• Hyphenation: bàr‧bo

barbo m (plural barbi)

1. barbel (freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

• barbo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Rhymes: -aɾbu
• Hyphenation: bar‧bo

barbo m (plural barbos)

1. barbel (any freshwater fish of the genus Barbus)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbo]

barbo f

1. vocative singular of barbă

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾbo/ [ˈbaɾ.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɾbo
• Syllabification: bar‧bo

Inherited from Late Latin barbus, from Latin barba (“beard”).

barbo m (plural barbos)

1. barbel

barbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of barbar

• “barbo”, 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