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The name Barbara is used in English, German, and Polish and means "foreign woman." It comes to those languages from Greek by way of Latin.

Barbarus is the Latin word for "foreign" and "barbara" is the feminine form. It derives from the Greek barbaroi, which referred originally to the unintelligible chatter of foreigners (who were all "barbarians" to the Greeks). To the Greek ear, that chatter sounded like bar-bar-bar, hence "barbaroi"

Derived from Greek 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.

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