Barbara
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra
Proper noun edit
Barbara (plural Barbaras)
- A female given name from Latin.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:: Scene 3:
- My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; […]
- 17th century or before: English folk song: Barbara Allen: 1839 version by Thomas Percy:
- All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.
- 1860, Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), East Lynne, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 29:
- "What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!" "I don't think so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!" Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.
- 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3), page 76:
- "Everybody in the next generation," suggested Dick, "will be named Peter or Barbara - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or Barbara."
- 2007, Marina Lewycka, Two Caravans, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 299:
- 'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.
Derived terms edit
- Pet forms: Babs, Barb, Barbie
- herb Barbara (Barbarea vulgaris)
Translations edit
cognates and transliterations of female given name
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
Barbara
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin Barbara.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Barbara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun edit
Barbara f
- a female given name
Usage notes edit
Matronymics
- son of Barbara: Barbaruson
- daughter of Barbara: Barbarudóttir
Declension edit
| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | Barbara |
| Accusative | Barbaru |
| Dative | Barbaru |
| Genitive | Barbaru |
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Barbara (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Barbara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Related terms edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin Barbara, from the saint's name.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Barbara
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara; popular especially in the mid-twentieth century
Related terms edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek-speaking, foreign”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Barbara
- a female given name
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Barbara | Barbarák |
| accusative | Barbarát | Barbarákat |
| dative | Barbarának | Barbaráknak |
| instrumental | Barbarával | Barbarákkal |
| causal-final | Barbaráért | Barbarákért |
| translative | Barbarává | Barbarákká |
| terminative | Barbaráig | Barbarákig |
| essive-formal | Barbaraként | Barbarákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Barbarában | Barbarákban |
| superessive | Barbarán | Barbarákon |
| adessive | Barbaránál | Barbaráknál |
| illative | Barbarába | Barbarákba |
| sublative | Barbarára | Barbarákra |
| allative | Barbarához | Barbarákhoz |
| elative | Barbarából | Barbarákból |
| delative | Barbaráról | Barbarákról |
| ablative | Barbarától | Barbaráktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Barbaráé | Barbaráké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Barbaráéi | Barbarákéi |
| Possessive forms of Barbara | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Barbarám | Barbaráim |
| 2nd person sing. | Barbarád | Barbaráid |
| 3rd person sing. | Barbarája | Barbarái |
| 1st person plural | Barbaránk | Barbaráink |
| 2nd person plural | Barbarátok | Barbaráitok |
| 3rd person plural | Barbarájuk | Barbaráik |
References edit
- ^ Fercsik Erzsébet, Raátz Judit: Keresztnevek enciklopédiája, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2009
Italian edit
Proper noun edit
Barbara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Probably a substantivisation, used as a proper noun, of the feminine forms of barbarus (“wild”, “savage”, “cruel”, “barbarous”), in elliptical use for Prensiō Barbara (“the Cruel Prison”). Compare barbara (“a wild, savage, cruel, or barbarous woman”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/, [ˈbärbärä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/, [ˈbärbärä]
- Homophone: barbara
Proper noun edit
Barbara f sg (genitive Barbarae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) the name of one of the more abominable prisons of the Grand Châtelet of Paris
Declension edit
First-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | |
| Genitive | |
| Dative | |
| Accusative | |
| Ablative | |
| Vocative |
Holonyms edit
- (prison of the Grand Châtelet): Castelletum
References edit
- 2. BARBARA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros). Doublet of Barbórka.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Barbara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Declension edit
Declension of Barbara
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- Barbara in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Barbara f (genitive singular Barbary, nominative plural Barbary)
- a female given name
Declension edit
Declension of Barbara
Further reading edit
- “Barbora”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Proper noun edit
Barbara c (genitive Barbaras)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Derived terms edit
- uppblåsbar Barbara (“blow-up doll”)