غرب

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
غ ر ب (ḡ-r-b)

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ɣa.ra.ba/

Verb

غَرَبَ • (ḡaraba) I, non-past يَغْرُبُ‎ (yaḡrubu)

  1. to go away, depart, withdraw, leave
Conjugation

Verb

غَرَبَ • (ḡaraba) I, non-past يَغْرُبُ‎ (yaḡrubu)

  1. to set (of the sun, moon, etc.)
Conjugation

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ɣa.ru.ba/

Verb

غَرُبَ • (ḡaruba) I, non-past يَغْرُبُ‎ (yaḡrubu)

  1. to be a stranger
  2. to be strange, odd, obscure, difficult to understand
Conjugation

Pronunciation 3

  • IPA(key): /ɣar.ra.ba/

Verb

غَرَّبَ • (ḡarraba) II, non-past يُغَرِّبُ‎ (yuḡarribu)

  1. to go away, depart, withdraw, leave
  2. to go west, westward
  3. to banish, exile, expatriate
Conjugation

Pronunciation 4

  • IPA(key): /ɣarb/
  • (file)

Noun

غَرْب • (ḡarb) m

  1. verbal noun of غَرَبَ (ḡaraba) (form I)
  2. west, occident
  3. vehemence, violence, tempestuousness
Declension
Coordinate terms
  • (compass points) اِتِّجَاهَات الْبَوْصَلَةِ (ittijāhāt al-bawṣalati);
شَمَال غَرْبِيّ (šamāl ḡarbiyy) شَمَال (šamāl) شَمَال شَرْقِيّ (šamāl šarqiyy)
غَرْب (ḡarb) شَرْق (šarq)
جَنُوب غَرْبِيّ (janūb ḡarbiyy) جَنُوب (janūb) جَنُوب شَرْقِيّ (janūb šarqiyy)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Maltese: għarb
  • Azerbaijani: qərb
  • Northern Kurdish: xerb
  • Persian: غرب
  • Tajik: ғарб (ġarb)
  • Portuguese: Algarve
  • Ottoman Turkish: غرب (ġarb)
    > Turkish: garp (inherited)
    Crimean Tatar: ğarp
  • Uyghur: غەرپ (gherp)
  • Uzbek: gʻarb

Pronunciation 5

  • IPA(key): /ɣa.rab/

Noun

غَرَب • (ḡarab) m

  1. the disease of an abscess in the canthus of the eye, lachrymal fistula
    • 1025, ابن سينا (Avicenna), القانون في الطب‎ [Canon Medicinae], Rome: Stamperia Orientale Medicea, published 1593, Liber 2, page 159:
      دوسر‏:‏ الماهية‏:‏ حشيشة يشبه ورقها ورق الحنطة لكنه ألين وله ثمرة لها حجابان أو ثلاثة وعليها شبه الشعر وقد يتخذ منه عصارة وتحفظ وهي أفضل من حشيشه‏.‏
      الطبع‏:‏ حار في الأولى يابس في الثانية‏.‏
      الأفعال والخواص‏:‏ فيها تجفيف وتحليل‏.‏
      الأورام والبثور‏:‏ يلين الأورام التي أخذت تصلب ويمنع صلابتها‏.‏
      الزينة‏:‏ من خواصه أنه يذهب بداء الثعلب‏.‏
      أعضاء العين‏:‏ ينفع من الغرب‏.‏
      Goatgrass: What it is: A grass the leaves of which resemble the leaves of wheat, but it is more flaccid and it has fruits with two or three envelopes and it has a kind of hair and one may extract a juice from it and it is preserved and better than the grass itself.
      It’s trait: Hot in the first, dry in the third grade.
      Effects and properties: It is drying and dissolving.
      Swellings and pustules: It softens swellings which have become stiff and prevents their stiffening.
      Toiletry: It is amongst its properties that it goes well with baldness.
      Parts of the eye: It works against lacrimal fistules.
Declension

Etymology 2

From West Semitic *ḡarab-, cognate with Biblical Hebrew עֲרָבָה (ʿărāḇā́), עָרָב (ʿārāḇ, poplar, willow), Aramaic עַרְבָּא (ʿarəbā) / ܥܱܪܒ݂ܳܐ (ʿarəḇā), Tigre ዕርብ (ʿərb /⁠ʿərəb⁠/, a plant with tendrils), Soqotri ʿarhíeb, with possible further connections to Akkadian 𒌨𒁀𒌅 (ur-ba-tu, reed, rush), Akkadian 𒄑𒇡𒁀𒌓 (GIŠṣar-ba-tu2 /⁠ṣarbatu⁠/, Euphrates Poplar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣa.rab/

Noun

غَرَب • (ḡarab) m

  1. Euphrates poplar (Populus euphratica)
    Synonym: حَوَر فُرَاتِيّ (ḥawar furātiyy)
  2. willow (Salix spp.)
    Synonyms: صَفْصَاف (ṣafṣāf), خِلَاف (ḵilāf)
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 4, pages 154–155:
      ويغرس في المواضع الرطب الكبيرة والندوة منها النشم والغرب والصفيراء والأيرج والميس والرند ويتوخى أن يكون شجر الأترج في مواضع مستور عن الريح الجوفية والريح الغربية مكشوف للريح القبلية.
      One plants on moist, spacious and humid places there elms, willows, planetree maples, citrons, hackberries, and laurels, and it is to be taken care that the citron is covered from northern and western winds and open for southeastern winds.
Declension
References

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣurb/

Noun

غُرْب • (ḡurb) m pl

  1. plural of غُرَاب (ḡurāb)

Azerbaijani

Noun

غرب

  1. Arabic spelling of qərb

Laki

Etymology

From Arabic غَرْب (ḡarb).

Noun

غرب (ẍirb)

  1. west

Moroccan Arabic

Root
غ ر ب
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic غَرْب (ḡarb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣarb/

Noun

غرب • (ḡarb) m

  1. west

Derived terms

See also

(compass points)

شمال
غرب شرق
جنوب

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic غَرْب (ḡarb).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ğarb
Dari reading? ğarb
Iranian reading? ğarb
Tajik reading? ġarb

Noun

Dari غرب
Iranian Persian
Tajik ғарб

غرب • (ğarb)

  1. west

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

South Levantine Arabic

Root
غ ر ب
6 terms

Etymology

From Arabic غَرْب (ḡarb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣarb/, [ɣɑrˤb]
  • (file)

Noun

غرب • (ḡarb) m

  1. west

Derived terms

See also

(compass points)

شمال (šamāl)
غرب (ḡarb) شرق (šarq)
جنوب (janūb)
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