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Barbara does NOT mean "foreign". The word from which it originates, 'barbaros', is a derogatory word used by ancient Greeks to describe foreign people. The word means something closer to "Babbler", coming from the ancient Greeks interpretation of foreign languages, which to them sounded nonsensical, "barbarbar".
Barbaros is where the word 'barbarian' orginates. If you don't believe me, you could literally just google it. It's free.The meaning needs to be edited.
Also means road in Swahili, as Barabara.
The medieval French form of this name was Barbe, which nowadays is only used to refer to the saint, as barbe means beard in modern French. Barbara is the form given to French children today.
As an Italian name, Barbara is derived from the Latin "Barbarus," known to commonly mean, "Who Doesn't Know How To Speak; Stutterer," which is referring to foreigners who spoke neither Greek nor Latin.
"Barbara" is the feminine form of the Latin word "barbarus", meaning "wild, free, untamed". I think it is a very strong name to bear as it also stands for independence.
Barbara has a pedigree stretching all the way by to the Homeric Proto-Greeks, who couldn’t understand their Persian (and other) neighbors. To them, many such tongues sounded like a stammering repetition of "Bar-Bar-Bar..." hence the term Barbarian for such an obviously uncivilized outlander.

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