barbaric

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English barbarik, from Old French barbarique (“barbarous”), from Latin barbaricus, from Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós, “barbaric, savage, fierce”), from βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “barbarian”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). See βάρβαρος (bárbaros) for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪk/, /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbɛɹɪk/

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Adjective

barbaric (comparative more barbaric, superlative most barbaric)

1. of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth

   Antonym: nonbarbaric

   a barbaric attack on a doctor in a hospital

Derived terms

• barbarically
• mixo-barbaric
• non-barbaric
• semibarbaric

 

Translations

uncivilised

• Albanian: i barbar (sq), i paqytetëruar (sq)
• Arabic: هَمَجِيّ (hamajiyy), مُتَوَحِّش (ar) (mutawaḥḥiš)
• Armenian: բարբարոսական (hy) (barbarosakan)
• Azerbaijani: barbar, vəhşi (az)
• Belarusian: ва́рварскі (várvarski), ба́рбарскі (bárbarski), барбары́нскі (barbarýnski), дзі́кі (dzíki), дзіку́нскі (dzikúnski)
• Bulgarian: ва́рварски (bg) (várvarski), див (bg) (div)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野蠻／野蛮 (zh) (yěmán), 殘暴／残暴 (zh) (cánbào), 粗野 (zh) (cūyě)

• Czech: barbarský (cs)
• Danish: barbarisk
• Dutch: barbaars (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: barbaarne
• Finnish: raakalaismainen (fi), barbaarinen (fi)
• French: barbare (fr)
• Galician: bárbaro m
• Georgian: ბარბაროსული (barbarosuli)
• German: barbarisch (de)
• Greek: βάρβαρος (el) (várvaros), βαρβαρικός (el) (varvarikós)

  Ancient: βαρβαρικός (barbarikós)

• Hebrew: בַּרְבָּרִי (he) (barbári)
• Hungarian: barbár (hu)
• Irish: barbartha, danartha, ainchríostúil
• Italian: barbarico (it), barbaro (it)
• Japanese: 野蛮な (ja) (やばんな, yaban na)
• Kazakh: варвар (varvar), варварлық (varvarlyq)
• Korean: 야만(野蠻)의 (yaman-ui)
• Kyrgyz: варвар (ky) (varvar)
• Latvian: barbarisks
• Lithuanian: barbariškas
• Macedonian: варварски (varvarski)
• Malayalam: പ്രാകൃത (ml) (prākr̥ta), കിരാത (kirāta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barbarisk

  Nynorsk: barbarisk

• Persian: وحشیانه (fa) (vahšiyâne), وحشی (fa) (vahši), بربری (fa) (barbari)
• Polish: barbarzyński (pl)
• Portuguese: bárbaro (pt)
• Romanian: barbar (ro)
• Russian: ва́рварский (ru) (várvarskij), ди́кий (ru) (díkij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̀рбарскӣ, ва̀рварскӣ

  Roman: bàrbarskī (sh), vàrvarskī (sh)

• Slovak: barbarský
• Slovene: barbarski (sl)
• Spanish: barbárico (es), bárbaro (es)
• Swedish: barbarisk (sv)
• Tajik: ваҳшиёна (vahšiyona), ваҳшӣ (tg) (vahšī), барбарӣ (barbarī)
• Turkish: barbar (tr)
• Ukrainian: ва́рварський (uk) (várvarsʹkyj), ди́кий (dýkyj), дику́нський (dykúnsʹkyj)
• Uzbek: vahshiyona (uz), vahshiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: dã man (vi) (野蠻)