Babs

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  • English
Diminutive of BARBARA.

BARBARA   female   English, Italian, French, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Late Roman
Derived from Greek βαρβαρος (barbaros) meaning "foreign". According to legend, Saint Barbara was a young woman killed by her father Dioscorus, who was then killed by a bolt of lightning. She is the patron of architects, geologists, stonemasons and artillerymen. Because of her renown, the name came into general use in the Christian world in the Middle Ages. In England it became rare after the Protestant Reformation, but it was revived in the 19th century.
FULL FORMS
ENGLISH: Barbara, Barbra
EQUIVALENTS
BULGARIAN: Varvara
CROATIAN: Bara, Barbara, Barica
CZECH: Bára, Barbora
DANISH: Barbara
ENGLISH: Barb, Barbie, Bobbi, Bobbie
FRENCH: Barbara
GERMAN: Barbara, Bärbel
GREEK: Varvara
HUNGARIAN: Barbara, Borbála
IRISH: Báirbre
ITALIAN: Barbara
LATE ROMAN: Barbara
LITHUANIAN: Barbora
MACEDONIAN: Varvara
NORWEGIAN: Barbara
POLISH: Barbara, Basia
PORTUGUESE: Bárbara
RUSSIAN: Varvara, Varya
SCOTTISH: Barabal
SLOVAK: Barbora
SLOVENE: Barbara
SPANISH: Bárbara
SWEDISH: Barbara, Barbro