barbe

barbo (“beard”) +‎ -e (“adverb”)

barbe

1. in the manner of beards, beardically

• barbo (“beard”)

• IPA^(key): /baʁb/

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From Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe, from Latin barba, from earlier *farba, from Proto-Italic *farβā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (“beard”).

barbe f (plural barbes)

1. la barbe de trois jours, 2. la moustache, 3. la barbiche, 4. le bouc, 5. les rouflaquettes ou favoris, 6. à la Souvarov, 7. à l'impériale, 8. barbe complète.

1. beard

   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.

   (Alain, Propos, 1910)

2. 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.

3. barbel, whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon.

   Les barbes du brochet.

   The barbels of the pike.

4. (feather) barb

   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.

5. (botany) barb, hair or bristle.

   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.

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   (Gautier, Le Roman de la momie, 1858)

6. (colloquial) a boring thing

   Quelle barbe !

   What a bore!

Borrowed from Italian barbero, barbaro.

barbe (plural barbes)

1. (horse) Barbary

   un cheval barbe.

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barbe m (plural barbes)

1. Barbary horse

   Les barbes d'Abaco sont une toute petite population de chevaux barbes espagnols sauvages sur l'île d'Abaco.

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barbe

1. first-person singular present indicative of barber
2. third-person singular present indicative of barber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of barber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of barber
5. second-person singular imperative of barber

• “barbe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• “barbe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.

barbe f (plural barbis)

1. beard

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.

barbe m

1. uncle

• agne

barbe f pl

1. plural of barba

• ebbra

From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.

barbe f (plural barbes)

1. beard

• French: barbe

From Old French barbe, from Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.

barbe f (plural barbes)

1. (Jersey) beard
2. (Jersey) eaves

• barbe d'gardîngni (“thin beard”)
• barbe d'la reine (“love-in-a-mist”, literally “queen's beard”)
• barbe d'sapeur (“thick beard”)

• barbiche

From Latin barba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.

barbe f (oblique plural barbes, nominative singular barbe, nominative plural barbes)

1. beard

• Middle French: barbe
  • French: barbe

barbe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of barbar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of barbar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of barbar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of barbar.