barbel
English
Alternative forms
- barble (obsolete)
Etymology
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*bʰardʰéh₂ |
From Middle English barbel, from Old French barbel, from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɑːbəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bəl
Noun
barbel (plural barbels)
- A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- The Barble fishes, if one of them chance to be engaged, will set the line against their backes, and with a fin they have, toothed like a sharp saw, presently saw and fret the same asunder.
- (biology) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
- A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.
Translations
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Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbarbəl]
- Hyphenation: bar‧bêl
Noun
barbêl (first-person possessive barbelku, second-person possessive barbelmu, third-person possessive barbelnya)
Further reading
- “barbel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Old French
Noun
barbel oblique singular, 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)
- 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 oblique singular, 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)
- barbel (fish)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (barbel)
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbaɾbel/, [ˈbaɾ.bɛl]
- Hyphenation: bar‧bel
Further reading
- “barbel”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018