Barbara

barbara bárbara barbará barbára barbarà Barbára Bárbara English Alternative forms given name en Barbra Etymology From en la Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of la barbarus, from en grc βάρβαρος strange, foreign. en Varvara. logic From the given name; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives. Pronunciation en /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/ GA en /ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Barbara.wav Southern England en Bar ba ra Proper noun s en female Latin. iv: 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. en 1860 Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood) East Lynne 29 Kessinger Publishing 2004 0192804626 "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. "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." 76 en 2007 w:Marina Lewycka Two Caravans Fig Tree 9780670916375 299 'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name. en Grace Gilson Boulder’s ‘shocked and traumatized’ Jewish community takes stock of losses and strengths w:The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/boulders-shocked-and-traumatized-jewish-community-takes-stock-of-losses-and-strengths/ 2025-06-05 Among Soloway’s congregants injured in the attack was Barbara Steinmetz, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who has become one of the most poignant symbols of the attack. https://web.archive.org/web/20260820021745/https://www.timesofisrael.com/boulders-shocked-and-traumatized-jewish-community-takes-stock-of-losses-and-strengths/ 20 August 2026 en logic A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y". en Aleister Crowley, Felo De Se 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: en Babs, en Barb, en Barbie herb Barbara (Barbarea vulgaris species) Santa Barbara shelled slug Translations cognates and transliterations of female given name Albanian: sq Barbára f, sq Varvára f Arabic: ar بَرْبَارَة f Armenian: hy Վարվառե Asturian: ast Bárbola f Bulgarian: bg Варвара f Catalan: ca Bàrbara Cherokee: chr ᏆᏆᎠ quaqua'a Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 芭芭拉 Bābālā, cmn 巴巴拉 Bābālā Czech: cs Barbora f, cs Barbara f Danish: da Barbara Erzya: myv Виня Esperanto: eo Barbro Estonian: et Barbara Finnish: fi Barbara of foreigners French: fr Barbara f, fr Barbe f Galician: gl Bárbara f Georgian: ka ბარბარე German: de Barbara f Greek: el Βαρβάρα f Hawaiian: haw Palapala Hebrew: he ברברה Hungarian: hu Barbara, hu Borbála Irish: ga Bairbre f Italian: it Barbara Latin: la Barbara f Latvian: lv Baiba f Lithuanian: lt Barbora Manx: gv Barbrey f Norwegian: no Barbro Polish: pl Barbara f Portuguese: pt Bárbara Romanian: ro Barbara Russian: ru Варва́ра f cognate, ru Ба́рбара f transliteration Scottish Gaelic: gd Barabal f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Варвара f, sh Барбара f Latin: sh Varvara f, sh Barbara f Sicilian: scn Vàrbara f Slovak: sk Barbora f Slovene: sl Barbara f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb Borbora f Spanish: es Bárbara f Swedish: sv Barbro Ukrainian: uk Варва́ра f Danish Etymology da Proper noun da female Barbara Dutch Etymology Ultimately from nl la Barbara. Pronunciation nl /ˈbɑr.baːˌraː/ /ˈbɑr.bəˌraː/ nl Nl-Barbara.ogg nl Bar ba ra Proper noun f nl female Barbara Derived terms nl barbarakruid Faroese Etymology fo Proper noun fo proper noun f fo female Usage notes f Barbaruson Barbarudóttir Declension Barbara Barbaru Barbaru Barbaru French Etymology From fr la Barbara (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of la barbarus, from fr grc βάρβαρος strange, foreign. Pronunciation fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-Barbara.wav fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Barbara.wav France Proper noun f fr female Barbara Related terms fr Barbe German Etymology de la Barbara, from the saint's name. Pronunciation de /ˈbarbara/ [ˈbaʁ.bɐ.ʁa] [ˈbaɐ̯-] [ˈbaː-] [-bə-] [-ˌʁaː] de De-Barbara.OGG de De-Barbara2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun de proper noun de female Barbara; popular especially in the mid-twentieth century Related terms de Bärbel Hungarian hu: Etymology From hu grc βάρβαρος non-Greek-speaking, foreign.Fercsik Erzsébet, Raátz Judit: Keresztnevek enciklopédiája, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2009 Pronunciation hu Hu-Barbara.ogg hu Bar ba ra hu rɒ 3 Proper noun hu proper noun hu female Declension Barbará oBarbará References Italian it:+ (nome) Proper noun f it female Barbara Anagrams it aaabbrr abbarra Latin Etymology Probably a substantivisation, used as a proper noun, of the feminine forms of la barbarus wild”, “savage”, “cruel”, “barbarous, in elliptical use for la Prensiō Barbara the Cruel Prison. Compare la barbara a wild, savage, cruel, or barbarous woman. Pronunciation la barbara Proper noun Barbara<1> la Medieval Latin the name of one of the more abominable prisons of the Grand Châtelet of Paris Declension Barbara<1> Holonyms prison of the Grand Châtelet la Castelletum References BARBARA2 2. BARBARA Polish Etymology Ultimately from from pl grc βάρβαρος. pl Barbórka. Pronunciation Pl-Barbara.ogg Proper noun pl proper noun f pl female Barbara Declension Barba r Derived terms pl Basia Further reading Slovak Etymology sk Pronunciation Proper noun f Barborka sk female Declension f Derived terms sk Hypocoristics Bara Bora Boriša Barča Borka Further reading Barbora Swedish Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Barbara.wav Proper noun c sv female Barbara Derived terms sv uppblåsbar Barbara blow-up doll Tagalog Etymology tl :bor es:Bárbara + 1 Pronunciation Bárbara Proper noun Bárbará + tl female Spanish < Latin < Ancient Greek Barbara