barbel
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*bʰardʰéh₂ |
From Middle English barbel, from Old French barbel, from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus.
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barbel (plural barbels)
- 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.
- (biology) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
- A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.
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Indonesian edit
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barbêl (first-person possessive barbelku, second-person possessive barbelmu, third-person possessive barbelnya)
- (sports) barbell: a wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.
Further reading edit
- “barbel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Old French edit
Etymology 1 edit
From barbe + -el, or by analogy from Latin barbula.
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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)
- barb (something which stands out with a sharp point)
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- French: barbelé
Etymology 2 edit
From Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus (“a type of fish”).
Noun edit
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)
- barbel (fish)
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- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (barbel)
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English barbell.
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barbel (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔ᜊᜒᜎ᜔)
Further reading edit
- “barbel”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018