barbershop

English

A barber cutting a boy's hair in a barbershop.

Alternative forms

• barber shop, barber-shop, barber's shop

Etymology

Compound of barber +‎ shop.

Pronunciation

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Noun

barbershop (countable and uncountable, plural barbershops)

1. (countable) The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.

   Synonyms: barber's, (India) saloon, (obsolete) shaving house

   Hypernym: (UK) hairdresser's

   Coordinate term: beauty parlor

2. (uncountable, music) A style of a cappella vocal music, sung in four-part harmony, typically by a quartet of men.

Derived terms

• barbershop quartet
• barbershopper
• barbershoppy

Translations

barber’s shop

• Apache:

  Western Apache: kaʼizhéh yudeʼ

• Arabic: مَحَلّ لِلْحِلَاقَة m (maḥall lilḥilāqa)
• Azerbaijani: dəlləkxana, bərbərxana
• Belarusian: цыру́льня f (cyrúlʹnja)
• Bengali: সেলুন (bn) (śelun)
• Bulgarian: бръсна́рница f (brǎsnárnica)
• Catalan: perruqueria
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飛髮鋪／飞发铺 (fei¹ faat³ pou^3-2)

  Mandarin: 理髮店／理发店 (zh) (lǐfàdiàn, lǐfǎdiàn)

• Czech: holičství (cs) n, kadeřnický salon m
• Danish: frisørsalon (da) c, barbersalon c
• Dutch: kapsalon (nl) m
• Estonian: juuksurisalong
• Finnish: parturi (fi), parturiliike
• French: salon de coiffure (fr) m
• German: Friseurgeschäft n, Friseurladen (de) m, Herrenfriseurladen m, Friseursalon (de) m, Herrenfriseursalon (de) m
• Greek: κουρείο (el) n (koureío)

  Ancient: κουρεῖον n (koureîon)

• Haitian Creole: (boutik) kwafè
• Hebrew: מִסְפָּרָה (he) (mispara)
• Hindi: सैलून (sailūn)
• Hungarian: fodrászat (hu), fodrászüzlet (hu)
• Indonesian: tempat cukur
• Italian: barbieria (it) f, salone da parrucchiere m
• Japanese: 理髪店 (ja) (りはつてん, rihatsuten), 床屋 (ja) (とこや, tokoya)
• Kazakh: шаштараз (şaştaraz), шаштараз үйі (şaştaraz üiı)
• Khmer: ផ្ទះកាត់សក់ (phtĕəh kat sɑk)
• Korean: 이발소(理髮所) (ko) (ibalso), 리발소(理髮所) (ribalso) (North Korea), 미장원(美粧院) (ko) (mijang'won)
• Kyrgyz: чачтарач (ky) (cactarac), парикмахерская (parikmaherskaya)
• Latin: tonstrīna f
• Lezgi: дерлис (derlis)
• Macedonian: бербе́рница f (berbérnica)
• Norman: barbel'lie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frisørsalong m

  Nynorsk: frisørsalong m

• Persian: سلمانی (fa) (salmâni), آرایشگاه (fa) (ârâyešgâh)
• Polish: zakład fryzjerski m
• Portuguese: salão de cabeleireiro/cabeleireira m, barbearia (pt) f
• Russian: парикма́херская (ru) f (parikmáxerskaja), барбершо́п (ru) m (barberšóp) (neologism)
• Slovak: kaderníctvo n
• Slovene: frizerski salon m
• Spanish: peluquería (es) f, barbería f
• Swedish: frisersalong (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagupitan
• Tajik: сартарошхона (sartarošxona), салмонӣ (salmoni), ороишгоҳ (oroyišgoh)
• Turkish: berber (tr)
• Ukrainian: перука́рня f (perukárnja), голя́рня f (holjárnja)
• Uyghur: ساتىراشخانا (satirashxana)
• Uzbek: sartaroshxona (uz), sartaroshlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: hiệu cắt tóc
• Volapük: jeiföp (vo)

Verb

barbershop (third-person singular simple present barbershops, present participle barbershopping, simple past and past participle barbershopped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To perform in the barbershop musical style.