Barbara

Etymology
From, the name of , feminine form of , from. .

Proper noun

 * : Scene 3:
 * My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her;
 * 1) * 17th century or before: English folk song: Barbara Allen: 1839 version by Thomas Percy:
 * 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.
 * 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.

Derived terms

 * Pet forms:, ,

Translations

 * Albanian: Barbullë
 * Arabic: بَرْبَارَة
 * Armenian: Վարվառե
 * Asturian: Bárbola
 * Bulgarian: Варвара
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: Barbara
 * Erzya: Виня
 * Esperanto: Barbro
 * Estonian: Barbara
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბარბარე
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: Palapala
 * Hebrew: ברברה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: Bairbre
 * Italian:
 * Latin: Barbara
 * Latvian: Baiba
 * Lithuanian: Barbora
 * Manx: Barbrey
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: Barbara
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: Barabal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Варвара, Барбара
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: Vàrbara
 * Slovak: Barbora
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: Borbora
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: Варва́ра

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Usage notes
Matronymics
 * son of Barbara: Barbaruson
 * daughter of Barbara: Barbarudóttir

Etymology
From (name of a legendary saint), feminine form of, from.

Etymology
, from the saint's name.

Proper noun

 * 1) ; popular especially in the mid-twentieth century

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Probably a substantivisation, used as a proper noun, of the feminine forms of, in elliptical use for. Compare.

Proper noun

 * 1)   one of the more abominable prisons of the  of Paris

Etymology
Ultimately from from. .