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# How to pronounce "barbat" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/bærbæt/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **bar·bat**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun
- **NOUN**: An ancient Persian plucked lute with a pear-shaped body, a flat belly, an angled back near the pegbox, and a fretless neck.
  - *Example*: "MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum)."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (6 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "barbat" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "the most likely pain-inducer is a small peptide in their venom called barbatolysin. Barbatolysin acts a lot like melittin in the body, but it’s much more effective at killing cells, which might explain why stings from these ants hurt more than bee stings. Harvester ant venoms are also surprisingly lethal — for the species with the most potent venom, just 0.12 milligrams per kilogram of body weight is enough to kill 50% of the animals"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NHJjEFk32c&t=337s)

### Example 2
> "Sargassum being input in in the Caribbean Sea for example being the training data barbatus which was only one ton at a time it arrives here this one ton has become 12 tons it's in the system it's in the ocean it's found its"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLl5Ay1MRKA&t=360s)

### Example 3
> "when you had a lot of countries that gained independence barbatus guyana nigeria trinidad and tobago so an attempted stage then people were saying"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 60:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnN0gKe6qIE&t=3607s)

### Example 4
> "little little town in the north of Johannesburg called Barbaton um because she was that wanted woman who had had"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 37:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWa87BfDp7w&t=2260s)

### Example 5
> "And you'd see graffiti that would say things like "Vote for Barbatus, the bearded one; he'll be the best guy for the office, and he's pretty handsome"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 62:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdeUKFrWbdk&t=3757s)

### Example 6
> "the most likely pain-inducer is a small peptide in their venom called barbatolysin."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NHJjEFk32c&t=333s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [baba](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/baba), [babax](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/babax), [babbit](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/babbit)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "barbat" correctly?
"barbat" is pronounced `/bærbæt/`. Syllable breakdown: **bar·bat**.

### What does "barbat" mean in context?
An ancient Persian plucked lute with a pear-shaped body, a flat belly, an angled back near the pegbox, and a fretless neck.

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