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barge

/baʁʒ/

adjective/baʁʒ/

nuts, bananas (crazy)

Variant of barje, clipping of barjot, verlan form of jobard.

noun, feminine/baʁʒ/plural: barges

barge (boat)

Inherited from Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of barque.

noun, feminine/baʁʒ/plural: barges

godwit

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.