barbe
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe, from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).
Noun
barbe f (plural barbes)
- beard
- Il a une barbe bien fournie. ― He has a luxurious beard.
- Je vais peut-être me laisser pousser la barbe. ― Maybe I'll let my beard grow.
- Certaines personnes mettent plusieurs années avant d’obtenir une barbe dure, d’autres n’y parvenant jamais.
- Some people take several years before obtaining a strong beard, others never succeed.
- 1910, Alain, Propos:
- Je regardais hier le buste d’un philanthrope ; c’était une tête à moitié chauve, une barbe en pointe, et l’air d’un sous-chef à son bureau.
- Yesterday I was looking at the bust of a philanthropist; it was a half-bald head, a pointy beard, and the look of a sous-chef at his office.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- longer hair growing on the chin or face of some animals
- La barbe d’une chèvre, d’un bouc.
- The beard of a goat, of a billygoat.
- barbel (whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish)
- Les barbes du brochet.
- The barbels of the pike.
- barb (feather)
- Le duvet est constitué de petites plumes légères dont les barbes ne sont pas enchevêtrées.
- The duvet is made of small, light feathers whose barbs are not tangled.
- (botany) barb (hair or bristle)
- 1858, Théophile Gautier, Le Roman de la momie:
- La besogne des bœufs terminée, vinrent des serviteurs qui, armés d’écopes de bois, élevaient le blé en l’air et le laissaient retomber pour le séparer des pailles, des barbes et des cosses.
- The work of the oxen finished, servants came who, armed with wooden scoops, lifted the wheat into the air and let it fall back to separate the straw, the barbs, and the seed pods.
- (colloquial) a boring thing, a drag
- Quelle barbe ! ― What a bore!
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Italian barbero, barbaro.
Adjective
barbe (plural barbes)
- (of a horse) Barbary
- un cheval barbe ― a Barbary horse, a Barb horse
Noun
barbe m (plural barbes)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
barbe
- inflection of barber:
Further reading
- “barbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
barbe on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Etymology 1
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbis)
Etymology 2
From the above term, due to the fact that a beard represents a grown or mature man. Compare Romansh, Italian, and Piedmontese barba, Dalmatian buarba.
Noun
barbe m
See also
Noun
barbe f pl
Anagrams
Etymology
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbes)
Descendants
- French: barbe
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Etymology
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe f (plural barbes)
Derived terms
- barbe d'gardîngni (“thin beard”)
- barbe d'la reine (“love-in-a-mist”, literally “queen's beard”)
- barbe d'sapeur (“thick beard”)
Related terms
Etymology
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
barbe oblique singular, f (oblique plural barbes, nominative singular barbe, nominative plural barbes)
Derived terms
Descendants
Verb
barbe
- inflection of barbar:
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