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barba

Spanish, noun

barba is spelled B-A-R-B-A (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,469th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barba is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “beard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of barbar. With an accent, barbá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of barbar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Agrupación de pelos que en los varones adultos crece en las partes inferior y media de la cara”.

What does barba mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininebeard

  2. 2

    femininechin

noun

  1. 1

    masculinebeardy, bearded man

  2. 2

    archaicmasculinethe part of an old man (in a play)

  3. 3

    archaicmasculinethe villain (of a play)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as barbá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of barbar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Agrupación de pelos que en los varones adultos crece en las partes inferior y media de la cara. 2. Formación filamentosa de algunos vegetales o animales que recuerda a ésta. 3. Mechón de pelo que orna la quijada inferior de algunos caprinos. 4. Rebabas o flecos desordenados que quedan en el margen mal acabado de un instrumento.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of barba

  • barbas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to barba

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is barba in Spanish?

barba appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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