"Barbara" meaning in English

See Barbara in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/ [General-American], /ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Barbara.wav Forms: Barbaras [plural]
Etymology: From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|Barbara}} Latin Barbara, {{der|en|grc|βάρβαρος|t=strange, foreign}} Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”), {{doublet|en|Varvara}} Doublet of Varvara Head templates: {{en-proper noun|Barbaras}} Barbara (plural Barbaras)
  1. A female given name from Latin. Wikipedia link: Barbara, Saint Barbara Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names Synonyms: Barbra Derived forms: herb Barbara (taxonomic: Barbarea vulgaris) Derived forms (Pet forms): Babs, Barb, Barbie Translations (cognates and transliterations of female given name): Barbullë [feminine] (Albanian), بَرْبَارَة (barbāra) [feminine] (Arabic), Վարվառե (Varvaṙe) (Armenian), Bárbola [feminine] (Asturian), Варвара (Varvara) [feminine] (Bulgarian), Bàrbara (Catalan), 芭芭拉 (Bābālā) (Chinese Mandarin), 巴巴拉 (Bābālā) (Chinese Mandarin), Barbora [feminine] (Czech), Barbara [feminine] (Czech), Barbara (Danish), Виня (Vińa) (Erzya), Barbro (Esperanto), Barbara (Estonian), Barbara (note: of foreigners) (Finnish), Barbara [feminine] (French), Barbe [feminine] (French), Bárbara [feminine] (Galician), ბარბარე (barbare) (Georgian), Barbara [feminine] (German), Βαρβάρα (Varvára) [feminine] (Greek), Palapala (Hawaiian), ברברה (Hebrew), Barbara (Hungarian), Borbála (Hungarian), Bairbre [feminine] (Irish), Barbara (Italian), Barbara [feminine] (Latin), Baiba [feminine] (Latvian), Barbora (Lithuanian), Borbora [feminine] (Lower Sorbian), Barbrey [feminine] (Manx), Barbro (Norwegian), Barbara [feminine] (Polish), Bárbara (Portuguese), Barbara (Romanian), Варва́ра (Varvára) (english: cognate) [feminine] (Russian), Ба́рбара (Bárbara) [feminine, transliteration] (Russian), Barabal [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), Варвара [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Барбара [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Varvara [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Barbara [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Vàrbara [feminine] (Sicilian), Barbora [feminine] (Slovak), Barbara [feminine] (Slovene), Bárbara [feminine] (Spanish), Barbro (Swedish), Варва́ра (Varvára) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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Inflected forms

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          "word": "Babs"
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          "ref": "Scene 3",
          "text": "My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; […]"
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        {
          "ref": "17th century or before: English folk song: Barbara Allen: 1839 version by Thomas Percy",
          "text": "All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen."
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        {
          "ref": "1860, Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), East Lynne, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 29:",
          "text": "\"What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!\" \"I don't think so,\" said Mr Carlyle. \"It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!\" Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.",
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          "ref": "1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3), page 76:",
          "text": "\"Everybody in the next generation,\" suggested Dick, \"will be named Peter or Barbara - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or Barbara.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Marina Lewycka, Two Caravans, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 299:",
          "text": "'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.",
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          "code": "sq",
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          "word": "Barbullë"
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          "word": "بَرْبَارَة"
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          "roman": "Varvaṙe",
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          "word": "Վարվառե"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "Bàrbara"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "Bābālā",
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          "word": "芭芭拉"
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          "roman": "Bābālā",
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          "word": "巴巴拉"
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          "word": "Barbora"
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          "word": "ბარბარე"
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          "word": "Baiba"
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          "word": "Barbara"
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          "english": "cognate",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Varvára",
          "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Варва́ра"
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          "word": "Ба́рбара"
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
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          "word": "Barabal"
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          "word": "Варвара"
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          "word": "Барбара"
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          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
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          "word": "Vàrbara"
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          "code": "sk",
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          "word": "Barbora"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Barbara"
        },
        {
          "code": "dsb",
          "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
          "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Borbora"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Bárbara"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
          "word": "Barbro"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "Varvára",
          "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Варва́ра"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Barbara",
        "Saint Barbara"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "Barbara"
}
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  "derived": [
    {
      "sense": "Pet forms",
      "word": "Babs"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Pet forms",
      "word": "Barb"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Pet forms",
      "word": "Barbie"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Barbarea vulgaris",
      "word": "herb Barbara"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "Barbara"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Barbara",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "βάρβαρος",
        "t": "strange, foreign"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Varvara"
      },
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      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara.",
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    {
      "form": "Barbaras",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Barbaras"
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    }
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  "hyphenation": [
    "Bar‧ba‧ra"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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        "English female given names",
        "English female given names from Latin",
        "English given names",
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        "English proper nouns",
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        "English terms derived from Latin",
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        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 12 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Albanian translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Asturian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Erzya translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hawaiian translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Latvian translations",
        "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
        "Terms with Lower Sorbian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Manx translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Sicilian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Scene 3",
          "text": "My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "17th century or before: English folk song: Barbara Allen: 1839 version by Thomas Percy",
          "text": "All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), East Lynne, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 29:",
          "text": "\"What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!\" \"I don't think so,\" said Mr Carlyle. \"It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!\" Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3), page 76:",
          "text": "\"Everybody in the next generation,\" suggested Dick, \"will be named Peter or Barbara - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or Barbara.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Marina Lewycka, Two Caravans, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 299:",
          "text": "'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name from Latin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Barbara",
        "Saint Barbara"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Barbra"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbullë"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "barbāra",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "بَرْبَارَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "Varvaṙe",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Վարվառե"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bárbola"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "Varvara",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Варвара"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Bàrbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Bābālā",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "芭芭拉"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Bābālā",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "巴巴拉"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbora"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "myv",
      "lang": "Erzya",
      "roman": "Vińa",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Виня"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbro"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "of foreigners",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bárbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "barbare",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "ბარბარე"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Varvára",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Βαρβάρα"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Palapala"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "ברברה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Borbála"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bairbre"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Baiba"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbora"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbrey"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Bárbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "cognate",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Varvára",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Варва́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Bárbara",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "transliteration"
      ],
      "word": "Ба́рбара"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barabal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Варвара"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Барбара"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Varvara"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Vàrbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbora"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Borbora"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bárbara"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "word": "Barbro"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Varvára",
      "sense": "cognates and transliterations of female given name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Варва́ра"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Barbara"
}

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