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Rapunzel and the Prince, an illustration by Paul Hey. Barbara is a given name used in numerous languages. It is the feminine form of the Greek word barbaros (Greek: βάρβαρος) meaning "stranger" or "foreign". [1]
Barb is a feminine given name, often a short form of Barbara. It is also sometimes a surname. ... Barbara Barb Leahey, on the Canadian TV series Trailer Park Boys ...
Barbora (Czech:; Slovak:) is a Czech and Slovak female given name. It was derived from the Greek word barbaros (Greek: βαρβαρος) meaning "foreign", a variant of "Barbara". It is the 36th most popular given name in the Czech Republic (as of 2007). [1] Notable people with the name include:
A barbarous name (Latin: nomen barbarum; pl. nomina barbara) is a meaningless (or seemingly meaningless) word used in magic rituals. The term barbarous comes from the Greek barbaroi (Ancient Greek: βάρβαροι), meaning one to whom a pure Greek dialect is not native; one who is not a proper Greek, . Often these names were derived from ...
Growing up with the name Barbara Bush in the 1990s admittedly brought some unwanted spotlight to the twin sister of TODAY's Jenna Bush Hager. She shared the name with her grandmother, former first ...
Major Barbara, The Court Theatre 1904–1907 (1907) Painting depicting Saint Clare of Assisi, the Virgin Mary as the Madonna of Ears and Saint Barbara. The name of the barbiturate family of pharmaceutical drugs is believed to derive from the suggestion by an artilleryman commemorating the feast of Saint Barbara in 1864, whom the chemist Adolf ...
Jenna Bush Hager revealed the fun Secret Service code names for her and her twin sister on TODAY Tuesday.
Barbra Streisand. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Barbra Streisand didn’t hold back while writing her long-awaited memoir My Name Is Barbra. “For forty years, publishers have been asking ...