# بربر
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros).

#### Noun

بَرْبَر • (barbar) m pl (collective, singulative بَرْبَرِيّ m (barbariyy))
* barbarians, beastly people
* (offensive, ethnic slur) Berbers

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Proper noun

بَرْبَر • (barbar) m
* Berber (a city in Sudan)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

Denominal verb of بَرْبَر (barbar).

#### Verb

بَرْبَرَ • (barbara) Iq (non-past يُبَرْبِرُ (yubarbiru), verbal noun بَرْبَرَة (barbara))
* to barbarize
* (offensive, ethnic slur) to Berberize

##### Related terms

* تَبَرْبَرَ (tabarbara, “to be a barbarian; to be a Berber; to talk Berber”)

### Etymology 4

Onomatopoeic

#### Verb

بَرْبَرَ • (barbara) Iq (non-past يُبَرْبِرُ (yubarbiru), verbal noun بَرْبَرَة (barbara))
* (colloquial) to grumble, to babble, to blether
** p. 700, a forger of Imruʾ al-Qays, سما لكَ شوقٌ بعدما كان أقصر :وَإِنِّي زَعِيمٌ (var. أَذِينٌ) إِنْ رَجِعْتُ مُمَلَّكٌ / بِسَيْرٍ تَرَى مِنْهُ الفُرَانِقَ أَزْوَرَا عَلَى لَاحِبٍ لَا يَهْتَدِي بِمَنَارِهِ / إِذَا سَافَهُ الْعَوْدُ النُّبَاطِيُّ (var. دِيَافِيُّ) جَرْجَرَا عَلَى كُلِّ مَقْصُوصِ الذُنَابَى مُعَاوِدٍ / بَرِيدَ السَرَى بِاللَيْلِ مِن خَيْلِ بَرْبَرَاwa-ʔinnī zaʕīmun (var. ʔaḏīnun) ʔin rajiʕtu mumallakun / bi-sayrin tarā minhu l-furāniqa ʔazwarā ʕalā lāḥibin lā yahtadī bi-manāri-hī / ʔiḏā sāfa-hū l-ʕawdu n-nubāṭiyyu (var. diyāfiyyu) jarjarā ʕalā kulli maqṣūṣi ḏ-ḏunābā muʕāwidin / barīda s-sarā bi-l-layli min ḵayli barbarāAnd when I am the leader, back in the kingly rights, I trip so fast that you but see asquint the courier on an open road guided by no waymark, when it is smelled by the Nabataean camel dragging forward on every clipped bird-tail returning nocturnal journey’s mail by night from a horse that whinnied.

##### Descendants

* → Hebrew: ברבר

#### Adjective

بُرْبُر • (burbur)
* (colloquial) noisy, clamourous

##### Alternative forms

* بُرْبُرَة (burbura)

##### Derived terms

* أَبُو بُرْبُر (ʔabū burbur, “spurred cuckoo, Egyptian coucal, Centropus senegalensis”) (Egypt)

### Etymology 5
#### Interjection

بِرْبِر • (birbir)
* used by shepherds to call their flock together

## Ottoman Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɛrˈbɛɾ/

### Etymology 1

From Venetian barbièr (Italian barbiere).

#### Noun

بربر • (berber)
* barber
    Synonyms: پروكار (perukâr), صاچ كسن (saç kesen)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: berber
* → Albanian: berber
** → Aromanian: birber
* → Adyghe: бэрбэр (bɛrbɛr)
* → Armenian: պերպեր (perper), պեռպեռ (peṙpeṙ), ⇒ Բերբերյան (Berberyan), ⇒ Պերպերյան (Perperyan)
* → Azerbaijani: bərbər
* → Ladino: berber
* → Laz: ბერბერი (berberi)
* → Macedonian: бербер (berber)
* → Serbo-Croatian: бербер / berber

### Etymology 2

From Arabic بَرْبَر (barbar).

#### Noun

بربر • (berber) (singulative بربری (berberi))
* Berbers
* inhabitants of the Barbary

##### Descendants

* Turkish: Berber

## Pashto
### Etymology

Compare Urdu بیربیر (ber ber), Hindi बेर बेर (ber ber), Urdu بار بار (bār bār), Hindi बार बार (bār bār), Urdu بارمبار (bārambār), Hindi बारंबार (bārambār), Bengali বারবার (barbar), বার বার (bar bar) of the same meaning.

### Adverb

بربر • (barbar)
* repeatedly, often, frequently