barbarian (uncivilized) · horrible, awful (e.g., a type of music that one dislikes or a word or name that does not sound euphonious or is difficult to pronounce) · Berber
köken: From Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”).
köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós)bor. Latin barbaricuslbor. Spanish barbárico Learned borrowing from Latin barbaricus, from Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós, “foreign, strange”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese barbaro, from Latin barbarus (“foreign, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”), of onomatopoeic origin, mimicking the sound of foreign languages. Doublet of berbere and, possibly, of bravo /brabo.
Inherited from Middle Persian 𐬠𐬀𐬭𐬠𐬀𐬭𐬍𐬔 (barbarīg, “barbarian; African”), ultimately from Ancient Greek βᾰ́ρβᾰρος (bắrbăros). Equivalent to بربر (barbar, “Barbary”) + ی (-i). For the sense "Berber", presumably a semantic loan from Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy).