Barbara

== English == === Alternative forms === (given name): Barbra === Etymology === From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara. (logic): From the given name; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/ Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra === Proper noun === Barbara (plural Barbaras) A female given name from Latin. : 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. (logic) A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y". (Can we date this quote by Aleister Crowley, Felo De Se and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) If you see a girl you like, prove it to her by Barbara and Celarent all the way to Fresison or whatever the logician's Omega is — I forget. ==== Derived terms ==== Pet forms: Babs, Barb, Barbie herb Barbara (Barbarea vulgaris) Santa Barbara shelled slug ==== Translations ==== == Danish == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Proper noun === Barbara a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara == Dutch == === Etymology === Ultimately from Latin Barbara. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbɑr.baːˌraː/, /ˈbɑr.bəˌraː/ Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra === Proper noun === Barbara f a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara ==== Derived terms ==== == Faroese == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Proper noun === Barbara f a female given name ==== Usage notes ==== Matronymics son of Barbara: Barbaruson daughter of Barbara: Barbarudóttir ==== Declension ==== == French == === Etymology === From Latin Barbara (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /baʁ.ba.ʁa/ === Proper noun === Barbara f a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara ==== Related terms ==== Barbe == German == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Barbara, from the saint's name. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbarbara/, [ˈbaʁ.bɐ.ʁa], [ˈbaɐ̯-], [ˈbaː-], [-bə-], [-ˌʁaː] === Proper noun === Barbara a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara; popular especially in the mid-twentieth century ==== Related terms ==== Bärbel == Hungarian == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek-speaking, foreign”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈbɒrbɒrɒ] Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra Rhymes: -rɒ === Proper noun === Barbara a female given name ==== Declension ==== === References === == Italian == === Proper noun === Barbara f a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara === Anagrams === abbarra == Latin == === Etymology === 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbar.ba.ra] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbar.ba.ra] Homophone: barbara === Proper noun === 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 ==== First-declension noun, singular only. ==== Holonyms ==== (prison of the Grand Châtelet): Castelletum === References === "2. BARBARA", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) == Polish == === Etymology === Ultimately from from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros). Doublet of Barbórka. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /barˈba.ra/ Rhymes: -ara Syllabification: Bar‧ba‧ra === Proper noun === Barbara f a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === Barbara in Polish dictionaries at PWN == Slovak == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbarbara/ === Proper noun === Barbara f a female given name ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “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, 2003–2026 == Swedish == === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Barbara c (genitive Barbaras) a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara ==== Derived terms ==== uppblåsbar Barbara (“blow-up doll”) == Tagalog == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish Bárbara. === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbaɾbaɾa/ [ˌbaɾ.bɐˈɾa] Rhymes: -aɾbaɾa Syllabification: Bar‧ba‧ra === Proper noun === Bárbará (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔ᜊᜇ) a female given name from Spanish [in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Barbara