غريب

From the root غ ر ب‎ (ḡ-r-b); compare غَرُبَ‎ (ḡaruba, “to be a stranger, to be strange”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣa.riːb/

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غَرِيب • (ḡarīb), feminine غَرِيبَة‎ (ḡarība), masculine plural غُرَبَاء‎ (ḡurabāʔ), elative أَغْرَب‎ (ʔaḡrab)

1. strange, peculiar, unusual
2. foreign, unfamiliar; exotic
3. outlandish
4. rare
5. amazing, wondrous
6. obscure
7. (Islam) supported only by the authority of one narrator (relative to Muhammad)

• → Ottoman Turkish: غریب‎ (ġarib)

  > Turkish: garip (inherited)

• Maltese: għarib

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “غرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “غريب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie

غَرِيب • (ḡarīb) m, plural غُرَبَاء‎ (ḡurabāʔ) or أَغْرَاب‎ (ʔaḡrāb), feminine غَرِيبَة‎ (ḡarība)

1. foreigner
2. outsider
3. stranger

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “غرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic غَرِيب‎ (ḡarīb).

• IPA^(key): /ɣa.riːb/, [ɣaˈriːb]

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غريب • (ḡarīb), feminine غريبة‎ (ḡarībe), common plural غريبين‎ (ḡarībīn) or غربا‎ (ḡuraba), elative أغرب‎ (ʔaḡrab)

1. foreign, alien, strange
2. unusual, extraordinary, strange

• أجنبي‎ (ʔajnabi, “foreign”)

غريب • (ḡarīb) m, plural غريبين‎ (ḡarībīn) or غربا‎ (ḡuraba), feminine غريبة‎ (ḡarībe)

1. stranger