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Barbie
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barbie bărbie
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈbɑɹbi/ GA
en /ˈbɑːbi/ RP
en en-us-Barbie.ogg US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Barbie.wav Southern England
en ɑː(ɹ)bi 2
Etymology 1
en diminutive :af Barbara -ie<id:diminutive> + 1
Proper noun
s
en female Barbara.
Translations
diminutive of Barbara
Arabic: ar بَارْبِي f
Dutch: nl Babs, Babbe
Esperanto: eo Barnjo
Marathi: mr बार्बी f
Polish: pl Basia f
Russian: ru Ба́рби f, ru Ва́ря f diminutive of ru Варва́ра
Etymology 2
en doll Barbie<id:diminutive>
Named in 1959 after Barbara Handler-Segal, daughter of Mattel cofounder Elliot Handler.
Noun
thumb|Barbie [1]
A tall, slender female fashion doll.
en 1964 Young Children National Association for the Education of Young Children 55 10 They discourage their young children from engaging in rough-and-tumble play. One mother said, “I like Hai-Mei quiet. I like her playing Barbies, writing, and singing.”
en 1968 Paul Krassner The Realist Realist Association 84-93 68 Everything short of the toe-to-toe Truth and Love that comes from real confrontation of individual consciousness is just playing with Barbie dolls.
en 1976 Across the Board The Conference Board 13-14 20 Sarah, who is ten, says she doesn’t play with Barbies anymore, although she takes a certain scientific interest.
en 2005 Linda Hoffman Kimball Apple Pies & Promises Cedar Fort, 1555178499 51 Many of my feminist friends hate Barbie because they feel that she sends a terrible message to girls
en by extension informal derogatory An attractive but unintelligent or shallow young woman.
en Barbie doll dolly
en Ken Ken doll
1997, Aqua (band), Barbie Girl (song)
I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world / Life in plastic, it's fantastic / You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere / Imagination, life is your creation
en 2007 Vanessa Rose Lee The Beauty Queen and the School Nerd After the ceremony, the "Barbies and Kens" (excluding Tommy and Britney) gathered at Lindsay's mansion to have a barbeque party. They laughed and talked about good times and vowed to remain friends forever.
Derived terms
en Barbiecore Barbenheimer Barbiefication Barbie pagoda Barbie pink Barbie shipper Barbiesque ICE Barbie
Translations
doll
Arabic: ar بَارْبِي f
Armenian: hy Բարբի
Bulgarian: bg Барби
Catalan: ca Barbie
Cebuano: ceb Barbie
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 芭比娃娃 Bābǐ wáwá, cmn 芭比 Bābǐ
Czech: cs barbína f, cs Barbie
Danish: da Barbiedukke c, da Barbie-dukke c, da Barbie c
Finnish: fi barbi, fi Barbie
French: fr Barbie
Georgian: ka ბარბი
German: de Barbie f, de Barbiepuppe f
Greek: el Μπάρμπι
Hebrew: he בַּרְבִּי barbi
Hindi: hi बार्बी
Hungarian: hu Barbie
Italian: it Barbie
Japanese: ja バービー Bābī
Korean: ko ^바비
Lao: lo ບາຣ໌ບີ້
Latvian: lv Bārbija
Lithuanian: lt Barbė
Macedonian: mk ба́рбика f, mk Барби
Marathi: mr बार्बी f
Persian: fa باربی Bǎrbǐ
Polish: pl Barbie f
Portuguese: pt Barbie
Romanian: ro Barbie
Russian: ru Ба́рби f
Serbo-Croatian: sh barbika f, sh Барби, sh Barbi, sh Barbie
Slovak: sk Barbie
Slovene: sl Barbie
Spanish: es Barbie
Swedish: sv barbiedocka c, sv barbie c, sv Barbie
Tagalog: tl Barbie
Thai: th บาร์บี้
Turkish: tr Barbie
Ukrainian: uk Ба́рбі
Urdu: ur باربی bārbī
Vietnamese: vi Barbie
a beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman
Czech: cs barbína f
Finnish: fi blondi, fi bimbo
Polish: pl lala f, pl lalka f, pl lalunia f
Russian: ru ку́кла f doll puppet
Serbo-Croatian: sh barbika f
Anagrams
en abbeir Rabbie
en eponyms
en Barbie Female people
German
Etymology
de :bor fr:Barbier
de fr Barbier.
Pronunciation
de De-Barbie.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
de noun
de
de Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie
de needs expansion
Further reading
Polish
pl:
thumb|Barbie
Etymology
pl :ubor en:Barbie<id:doll> + 1
Pronunciation
barbi Bar.bie
Noun
f 1
en Barbie tall, slender female fashion doll
Further reading
pl eponyms
pl Barbie
Portuguese
Alternative forms
pt barbie
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Barbie<id:doll> + 1
Pronunciation
bárbi
Noun
f
a en Barbie doll
pt Brazil gay slang a gay man who is attractive and well-groomed
pt-BR 2000 Wilton García A forma estranha: ensaios sobre cultura e homoerotismo https://books.google.com/books?id=CGBEAQAAIAAJ&hl=en&cd=1&source=gbs_api&redir_esc=y 48 Neste sentido convém entender que, quando nos deparamos com qualquer rapaz forte e de músculos definidos, automaticamente, perguntamos: será que ele é uma Barbie? Este tipo de questionamento ocorre a partir de uma percepção contemporânea que, dentro do universo da cultura gay está sendo categorizado como tal. In this sense, it’s worth understanding that when we come across any strong guy with defined muscles, we automatically ask: is he a Barbie? This type of questioning arises from a contemporary perception that, within the universe of gay culture, he is being categorized as such.
Further reading