different between barber vs barbel

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.b?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??.b?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?(?)

Noun

barber (plural barbers)

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

Synonyms

• haircutter
• hairdresser
• hairstylist

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

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

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

Translations

Anagrams

• Barbre

Catalan

Etymology

From barba +? -er.

Noun

barber m (plural barbers, feminine barbera)

1. barber

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?.be/

Verb

barber

1. (familiar) 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)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• barbant

References

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

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bar.b?r]
• Hyphenation: bar?bêr

Noun

barber

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

   Synonyms: tukang cukur, pemangkas rambut

Alternative forms

• barbir

Further reading

• “barber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

barber

1. imperative of barbere

English

Alternative forms

• barble

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French barbel, from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??b?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?l

Noun

barbel (plural barbels)

1. A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.
2. (biology) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
3. A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.

Translations

Anagrams

• barble, rabble

Old French

Etymology 1

From barbe + -el, or by analogy from Latin barbula.

Noun

barbel m (oblique plural barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative singular barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative plural barbel)

1. barb (something which stands out with a sharp point)

Descendants

• French: barbelé

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus (“a type of fish”).

Noun

barbel m (oblique plural barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative singular barbeaus or barbeax or barbiaus or barbiax or barbels, nominative plural barbel)

1. barbel (fish)

Descendants

• English: barbel
• French: barbeau

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (barbel)