barbe
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
barbo (“beard”) + -e (“adverb”)
Adverb edit
barbe
- in the manner of beards
Related terms edit
- barbo (“beard”)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- barbe à papa
- barbe de trois jours
- la barbe
- sainte barbe
- au nez et à la barbe
- dans sa barbe
- parler dans sa barbe
- rire dans sa barbe
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Italian barbero, barbaro.
Adjective edit
barbe (plural barbes)
- (of a horse) Barbary
- un cheval barbe ― a Barbary horse, a Barb horse
Noun edit
barbe m (plural barbes)
- Barbary horse
- Les barbes d’Abaco étaient une toute petite population de chevaux barbes espagnols sauvages sur les îles Abacos.
- The Abaco Barbs were a very small population of wild Spanish Barb horses on the Abaco Islands.
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
barbe
- inflection of barber:
Further reading edit
- “barbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- barbe on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Friulian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun edit
barbe f (plural barbis)
Etymology 2 edit
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 edit
barbe m
See also edit
Italian edit
Noun edit
barbe f pl
Anagrams edit
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun edit
barbe f (plural barbes)
Descendants edit
- French: barbe
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun edit
barbe f (plural barbes)
Derived terms edit
- barbe d'gardîngni (“thin beard”)
- barbe d'la reine (“love-in-a-mist”, literally “queen's beard”)
- barbe d'sapeur (“thick beard”)
Related terms edit
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun edit
barbe oblique singular, f (oblique plural barbes, nominative singular barbe, nominative plural barbes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Spanish edit
Verb edit
barbe
- inflection of barbar: