barber

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• UK: /ˈbɑː.bə/
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• General-American: /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: B AA1 R B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *bhardhéh2 From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

220 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: berber — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Arabic: حَلَّاق (ḥallāq) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Arabic: حلاق (ḥallāʔ) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Arabic: حلاق (ḥallāg) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Arabic: حلاق (ḥallāq) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Arabic: حسان (ḥassān) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Arabic: حجام (ḥajjām) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Arabic: حلاق (ḥallāʔ, ḥallāg) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܲܪܵܥܵܐ (garrāˁā) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܲܪܵܥܬܵܐ (garrāˁtā) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Armenian: վարսավիր (varsavir) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Armenian: սափրիչ (sapʻričʻ) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Aromanian: barber — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Assamese: নাপিত (napit) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Azerbaijani: bərbər — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Azerbaijani: dəllək — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Belarusian: цыру́льнік (cyrúlʹnik) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Belarusian: цыру́льніца (cyrúlʹnica) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Bengali: নাপিত (napito) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Bhojpuri: नाई (nāī) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Bulgarian: бръсна́р (brǎsnár) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Bulgarian: бръсна́рка (brǎsnárka) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Bulgarian: фризьо́р (frizjór) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Bulgarian: фризьо́рка (frizjórka) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Burmese: ဆတ္တာသည် (hcattasany) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Catalan: barber — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Chechen: ларгант (largant) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏍᏙᏰᏍᎩ (didasdoyesgi) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Chinese Mandarin: 理髮師 /理发师 (lǐfǎshī) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Chukchi: инэнимэтыльын (inėnimėtylʹyn) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Czech: holič — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Czech: holička — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Czech: lazebník — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Czech: bradýř — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Czech: bradýřka — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Czech: kadeřník — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Czech: kadeřnice — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Dalmatian: burbur — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Danish: barber — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Danish: frisør — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Dutch: kapper — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Dutch: haarkapper — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Dutch: coiffeur — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Dutch: barbier — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Esperanto: barbiro — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Finnish: parturi — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Finnish: hiustenleikkaaja — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• French: coiffeur — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• French: coiffeuse — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• French: barbier — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• West-Frisian: skearbaas — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Galician: barbeiro — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Georgian: დალაქი (dalaki) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Georgian: მკრეჭავი (mḳreč̣avi) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Georgian: პარიკმახერი (ṗariḳmaxeri) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• German: Barbier — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• German: Bartschneider — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• German: Bartscherer — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• German: Friseur — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Greek: κουρέας (kouréas) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ancient Greek: κουρεύς (koureús) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Gujarati: હજામ (hajām) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Haitian Creole: kwafè — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Hawaiian: mea ʻako lauoho — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Hebrew: סַפָּר (sapár) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Hebrew: ספרית (saparit) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Hindi: नाई (nāī) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Hungarian: borbély — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Icelandic: rakari — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Icelandic: bartskeri — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Indonesian: barbir — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Indonesian: tukang cukur — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Irish: bearbóir — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Italian: barbiere — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Italian: parrucchiere — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Japanese: 理髪師 (rihatsushi) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Japanese: 床屋 (tokoya) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Kamba: kinyozi — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Kamta: নাউৱা (naua) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Kazakh: шаштараз (şaştaraz) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Kazakh: шаштаразшы (şaştarazşy) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Khmer: ជាងកាត់សក់ (ciəng kat sɑk) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Khmer: ហាងកាត់សក់ (haang kat sɑk) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Kikuyu: kinyothi — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Korean: 이발사 (ibalsa) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Korean: 리발사 (ribalsa) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Korean: 이용사 (iyongsa) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Korean: 리용사 (riyongsa) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Kyrgyz: чачтарач (cactarac) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Kyrgyz: парикмахер (parikmaher) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ladino: berber — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ladino: kuafor — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ladino: arrapador (Monastir) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Lao: ຊ່າງຕັດຜົມ (sāng tat phom) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Latin: tonsor — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Latin: tonstrix — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Luhya: kinyozi — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Luo: kinyozi — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Macedonian: бербер (berber) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Macedonian: берберка (berberka) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Malayalam: ക്ഷുരകൻ (kṣurakaṉ) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Malayalam: അമ്പിട്ടൻ (ampiṭṭaṉ) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Maltese: barbier — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Maltese: barbiera — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Māori: kaikuti makawe — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Marathi: न्हावी (nhāvī) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Mopan Maya: ajk'o'os — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Navajo: náʼáshéhé — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Norman: barbyi — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Norwegian Bokmål: barberer — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Pannonian Rusyn: байбер (bajber) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Pannonian Rusyn: бритвар (britvar) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Persian: سرتراش (sartarâš) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Persian: گرای (garāy) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Persian: سترنده (setorande) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Persian: پیرایشگر (pīrāyešgar) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Plautdietsch: Barba — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polabian: vǫ̇sĕpuc — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: balwierz — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: balwierka — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: barber — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: barberka — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: fryzjer — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: fryzjerka — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: golarz — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: golarka — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Polish: golibroda — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Portuguese: barbeiro — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Romanian: bărbier — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Romanian: frizer — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Romanian: coafor — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Russian: парикма́хер (parikmáxer) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Russian: брадобре́й (bradobréj) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Russian: цирю́льник (cirjúlʹnik) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Russian: цирю́льница (cirjúlʹnica) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Sanskrit: नापित (nāpita) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Serbo-Croatian: брица — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Serbo-Croatian: бѐрбер — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Serbo-Croatian: ба̀рбӣр — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Serbo-Croatian: бербѐрӣн — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Serbo-Croatian: brica — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Serbo-Croatian: bèrber — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Serbo-Croatian: bàrbīr — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Serbo-Croatian: berbèrīn — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Slovak: holič — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Slovak: holička — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Slovak: kaderník — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Slovak: kaderníčka — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Old Slovak: kaderavec — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Slovene: brivec — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Lower Sorbian: frizer — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Upper Sorbian: frizer — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Upper Sorbian: łazenk — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Upper Sorbian: barběr — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Upper Sorbian: truhar — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Spanish: barbero — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Spanish: peluquero — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Spanish: fígaro — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Swahili: kinyozi — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Swedish: frisör — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Swedish: barberare — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Tagalog: barbero — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Tagalog: manggugupit — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Tajik: сартарош (sartaroš) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Tausug: manggugunting — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Tausug: balbiru — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Telugu: క్షురకుడు (kṣurakuḍu) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Telugu: మంగలి (maṅgali) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Thai: กัลบก (gan-lá-bòk) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Thai: ช่างตัดผม (châang-dtàt-pǒm) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Turkish: berber — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Turkish: perukâr — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Turkish: sakal kesen — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Turkish: kuaför — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ottoman Turkish: بربر (berber) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ottoman Turkish: پروكار (perukâr) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ottoman Turkish: صقال كسن (sakal kesen) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Turkmen: dellek — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ukrainian: перука́р (perukár) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ukrainian: перука́рка (perukárka) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ukrainian: голя́р (holjár) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Ukrainian: голя́рка (holjárka) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Uyghur: ساتىراش (satirash) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Uyghur: ساتىراچ (satirach) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Uzbek: sartarosh — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Venetan: peruchièr — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Vietnamese: thợ cắt tóc — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Volapük: jeifan — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Volapük: hijeifan — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Volapük: jijeifan — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Welsh: barbwr — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Yiddish: שערער (sherer) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Yiddish: שערערין (shererin) — person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards
• Arabic: حلاقَة — to cut the hair
• Bulgarian: подстригвам (podstrigvam) — to cut the hair
• Danish: klippe — to cut the hair
• Danish: barbere — to cut the hair
• Danish: rage — to cut the hair
• Dutch: haarknippen — to cut the hair
• Dutch: haren knippen — to cut the hair
• Dutch: scheren — to cut the hair
• Finnish: parturoida — to cut the hair
• Finnish: leikata hiukset — to cut the hair
• German: frisieren — to cut the hair
• German: Haare schneiden — to cut the hair
• Greek: κουρεύω (kourévo) — to cut the hair
• Hebrew: סיפר (sipér) — to cut the hair
• Macedonian: стриже (striže) — to cut the hair
• Macedonian: берберису́ва (berberisúva) — to cut the hair
• Persian: موی ستردن (muy sotordan) — to cut the hair
• Portuguese: barbear — to cut the hair
• Portuguese: cortar cabelo — to cut the hair
• Romanian: bărbieri — to cut the hair
• Romanian: tunde — to cut the hair
• Swedish: klippa — to cut the hair
• Swedish: barbera — to cut the hair
• Telugu: క్షవరం చేయు (kṣavaraṁ cēyu) — to cut the hair
• Telugu: జుత్తు కత్తరించు (juttu kattariñcu) — to cut the hair
• Vietnamese: cắt tóc — to cut the hair
• Vietnamese: cạo mặt — to cut the hair