Translation
beard
Word origin
From Latin barba, 'beard'. English beard is not borrowed from it but is a cousin, both descending from the same Indo-European root; the borrowed relatives in English are barber and barb.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- barba
- English cognates
- barber, barb
Examples
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The old man has a long white beard.
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The king's beard was black.
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He does not like his beard.
covers the whole beard as one object, so it is singular where English is too. The moustache alone is , literally lip hairs, and a bearded man is barba or o. Shaving is , which is a separate root entirely.
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