barber

PIE word
*bʰardʰéh₂

From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.bə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)

barber (plural barbers)

1. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.

   Synonyms: haircutter, hairdresser, hairstylist, tonsor (obsolete)

   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:

     There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.

2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
3. (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.

• → Indonesian: barber
• → Polish: barber

barber (third-person singular simple present barbers, present participle barbering, simple past and past participle barbered)

1. (transitive) To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
2. (intransitive) (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 29:

     ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

• Barbre

• birber

barber m (plural barberi)

1. barber (profession)

• barbirii / barbirie

From barba +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bərˈbe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baɾˈbeɾ]

barber m (plural barbers, feminine barbera)

1. barber

• “barber” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From barbe +‎ -er; compare with familiar sense of raser which was its original meaning in Old French.

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.be/

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barber

1. (informal) to bore someone
   • Le fait est qu'il ne perd aucune occasion de nous barber avec ses expériences dramatiques. (Claudel, Le Ravissement de Scapin, 1952)

• barbant

• “barber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• “barber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English barber, Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbar.bər]
• Hyphenation: bar‧bêr

barber (first-person possessive barberku, second-person possessive barbermu, third-person possessive barbernya)

1. (colloquial) barber (a person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards)

   Synonyms: tukang cukur, pemangkas rambut

• barbier (pre-1947)
• barbir

• “barber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

barber

1. imperative of barbere

Borrowed from English barber. Doublet of balwierz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bɛr/
• Rhymes: -arbɛr
• Syllabification: bar‧ber

barber m pers (female equivalent barberka)

1. barber (person whose profession is cutting male customers' hair and beards)

• barber in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• barber in Polish dictionaries at PWN