جراب

Arabic

Etymology 1

Unknown, a culture-word interrelated with Persian جوراب‎ (jôrâb, “sock”) with a disputed direction of borrowings. Cognate to Aramaic גְּרַב‎ (gəraḇ), גַּרְבָּא‎ (garbā), Classical Syriac ܓܪܳܒܳܐ‎ (gərāḇā, “skin bottle”), Late Babylonian 𒄖𒊏𒁍 (/gurābu/, “bag; bag around a jug”), Ge'ez ግራብ (gərab, “skin bottle”), Amharic ጊርባ (girba, “container for water or honey made from skin”). Arabic has the word in other shapes قِرْبَة‎ (qirba) and قِرَاب‎ (qirāb); see also جَوْرَب‎ (jawrab).

Noun

جِرَاب • (jirāb) m (plural جُرُب‎ (jurub) or أَجْرِبَة‎ (ʔajriba))

  1. pouch, sack, case, sheath, holster, etc.
  2. pod (of plant-seeds)
  3. scrotum
  4. bursa
  5. omasum, psalterium, the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
    Synonym: أُمّ التَلَافِيف‎ (ʔumm at-talāfīf)
    Coordinate terms: كَرِش‎ (kariš, “rumen”), قَلَنْسُوَة‎ (qalansuwa, “reticulum”), إِنْفَحَة‎ (ʔinfaḥa, “abomasum”)
  6. marsupial
    Synonym: جِرَابِيّ‎ (jirābiyy)
Declension

Noun

جُرَاب • (jurāb) m (plural جُرَابَات‎ (jurābāt))

  1. alternative form of جَوْرَب‎ (jawrab)
Declension

References

  • “grb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “جراب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 181
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “قراب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 323
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 64
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 81
  • Freytag, Georg (1830), “جراب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 261
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “جراب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 174
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