Meaning: the foreign
Gender: female
Languages of use: German, Italian, Spanish, English, French, Polish
Diminutives: Babette, Babsi, Bärbel, Basia
Asteroid: 234 Barbara, diameter 43.75 km, period 26.5 years
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Meaning/translation: the foreign
Language of origin: Latin
Info:
from a very old word root reaching back to Indoeuropean that echoes the unintelligible speech of foreigners
known from Saint Barabara of Nicomedia (3th/4th century AD)
Words:
barbari = the barbars, the stammering people Latin
barbaros = foreign, barbaric Old Greek
barbar = the unintelligible speech Indoeuropean
Name variants: Babette, Babsi, Barbara, Bárbara, Barbare, Bärbel, Barbora, Barbra, Barbro, Basia, Borbála, Varvara