غرب

See also: عزت‎, عرب‎, غرت‎, عزب‎, غژب‎, and ع ر ب‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the 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
  • → Portuguese: Algarve
  • → Ottoman Turkish: غرب‎ (ġarb)
    > Turkish: garp (inherited)

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)
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

Noun

غرب • (ğarb)

  1. west

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

South Levantine Arabic

Root
غ ر ب‎

Etymology

From Arabic غَرْب‎ (ḡarb).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

غرب • (ḡarb) m

  1. west

Derived terms

  • غربي‎ (ḡarbi, “western”)
  • مغرب‎ (muḡreb, “evening; sunset”)

See also

(compass points)

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