From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe ("beard"), from Latin barba.

• (British) IPA: /ˈbɑː.bə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/

barber (plural barbers)

1. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.

   Synonyms: haircutter, hairdresser, hairstylist, tonsor

2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
3. (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.

• French: coiffeur, coiffeuse, barbier
• German: Barbier, Bartschneider, Bartscherer, Friseur
• Italian: barbiere, parrucchiere
• Portuguese: barbeiro
• Russian: парикма́хер
• Spanish: barbero, peluquero

barber (barbers, present participle barbering; simple past and past participle barbered)

1. To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
2. (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 29:

     ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

• German: frisieren, Haare schneiden
• Portuguese: barbear, cortar cabelo

1. Surname for a barber.
2. A neighbourhood in Chico, Butte County.
3. A twp in Faribault County, Minnesota.
4. Former name of Maurer New Jersey.
5. An unincorporated community/and/CDP in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
6. A town in the north of Curaçao.