Barbara

• Barbra

From Latin Barbara (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Compare Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian”).

Barbara (plural Barbaras)

1. A female given name.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     : 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; she had a song of 'willow'

   • 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.

   • 1860 Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood) East Lynne. Kessinger Publishing, 2004. →ISBN page 29:

     "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.

   • 1922 Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, →ISBN, page 76:

     "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."

   • 2007 Marina Lewycka, Two Caravans, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 299:

     'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.

• Pet forms: Babs, Barb, Barbie

Barbara

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Ultimately from Latin Barbara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑr.baːˌraː/, /ˈbɑr.bəˌraː/

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• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra

Barbara f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

Barbara f

1. A female given name

Matronymics

• son of Barbara: Barbaruson
• daughter of Barbara: Barbarudóttir

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.ba.ʁa/

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Barbara

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

• Barbe

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Barbara

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara; very popular in the mid-twentieth century.

• Bärbel

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek-speaking, foreign”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒrbɒrɒ]

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• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧ra

Barbara

1. A female given name.

Barbara f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba.ra/
• Homophone: barbara

Barbara f (genitive Barbarae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) the name of one of the more abominable prisons of the Grand Châtelet of Paris

First declension.

• (prison of the Grand Châtelet): Castelletum

• 2. BARBARA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /barˈba.ra/

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Barbara f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Barbara

• Basia

• Barbara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarbara/

Barbara f (genitive Barbary, nominative plural Barbary)

1. A female given name.

• Barbora in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk