BARABRA  , a name for the complex Nubian races of the

Egyptian Sudan, whose original stock is Hamitic-Berber, longmodified by negro crossings . The word is variously derived from Berberi, i.e. people of Berber, or as identical with°Barabara, figuring in the inscription on a gateway of Tethmosis I. as the name of one of the 113 tribes conquered by him . In a later inscription of Rameses II. at Karnak (c . 1300 B.C.) Beraberata is given as that of a southern conquered people . Thus it is suggested that Barabra is a real ethnical name, confused later with Greek and Roman barbarus, and revived in its proper meaning subsequent to the Moslem conquest . A tribe living on the banks of the Nile between Wadi Halfa and Assuan are called Barabra .