Etymology
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Inherited from Middle English barbarik, from Old French barbarique (“barbarous”), from Latin barbaricus, from Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós, “barbaric, savage, fierce”), from βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “barbarian”) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). See βάρβαρος (bárbaros) for more.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪk/, /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbɛɹɪk/
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Adjective
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barbaric (comparative more barbaric, superlative most barbaric)
- of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth
- Antonym: nonbarbaric
- a barbaric attack on a doctor in a hospital
Derived terms
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Translations
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uncivilised
- Albanian: i barbar (sq), i paqytetëruar (sq)
- Arabic: هَمَجِيّ (hamajiyy), مُتَوَحِّش (ar) (mutawaḥḥiš)
- Armenian: բարբարոսական (hy) (barbarosakan)
- Azerbaijani: barbar, vəhşi (az)
- Belarusian: ва́рварскі (várvarski), ба́рбарскі (bárbarski), барбары́нскі (barbarýnski), дзі́кі (dzíki), дзіку́нскі (dzikúnski)
- Bulgarian: ва́рварски (bg) (várvarski), див (bg) (div)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 野蠻／野蛮 (zh) (yěmán), 殘暴／残暴 (zh) (cánbào), 粗野 (zh) (cūyě)
- Czech: barbarský (cs)
- Danish: barbarisk
- Dutch: barbaars (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: barbaarne
- Finnish: raakalaismainen (fi), barbaarinen (fi)
- French: barbare (fr)
- Galician: bárbaro m
- Georgian: ბარბაროსული (barbarosuli)
- German: barbarisch (de)
- Greek: βάρβαρος (el) (várvaros), βαρβαρικός (el) (varvarikós)
- Ancient: βαρβαρικός (barbarikós)
- Hebrew: בַּרְבָּרִי (he) (barbári)
- Hungarian: barbár (hu)
- Irish: barbartha, danartha, ainchríostúil
- Italian: barbarico (it), barbaro (it)
- Japanese: 野蛮な (ja) (やばんな, yaban na)
- Kazakh: варвар (varvar), варварлық (varvarlyq)
- Korean: 야만(野蠻)의 (yaman-ui)
- Kyrgyz: варвар (ky) (varvar)
- Latvian: barbarisks
- Lithuanian: barbariškas
- Macedonian: варварски (varvarski)
- Malayalam: പ്രാകൃത (ml) (prākr̥ta), കിരാത (kirāta)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: barbarisk
- Nynorsk: barbarisk
- Persian: وحشیانه (fa) (vahšiyâne), وحشی (fa) (vahši), بربری (fa) (barbari)
- Polish: barbarzyński (pl)
- Portuguese: bárbaro (pt)
- Romanian: barbar (ro)
- Russian: ва́рварский (ru) (várvarskij), ди́кий (ru) (díkij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ба̀рбарскӣ, ва̀рварскӣ
- Roman: bàrbarskī (sh), vàrvarskī (sh)
- Slovak: barbarský
- Slovene: barbarski (sl)
- Spanish: barbárico (es), bárbaro (es)
- Swedish: barbarisk (sv)
- Tajik: ваҳшиёна (vahšiyona), ваҳшӣ (tg) (vahšī), барбарӣ (barbarī)
- Turkish: barbar (tr)
- Ukrainian: ва́рварський (uk) (várvarsʹkyj), ди́кий (dýkyj), дику́нський (dykúnsʹkyj)
- Uzbek: vahshiyona (uz), vahshiy (uz)
- Vietnamese: dã man (vi) (野蠻)
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