تراب

See also: برات and تراث

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the root ت ر ب (t-r-b).

Pronunciation

Noun

تُرَاب (turāb) m (plural أَتْرِبَة (ʔatriba) or تِرْبَان (tirbān))

  1. earth, soil, ground, dust (organic material, sand, etc., which covers the land)
  2. (figurative) land, territory, soil
    أَرادَت أَن تَرْجِعَ إلَى تُرابِ الوَطَن.
    ʔarādat ʔan tarjiʕa ʔilā turābi al-waṭan.
    She wanted to return to the homeland’s soil.

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: trab

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830), تراب”, 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 188
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), تراب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 301
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), تراب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 168
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), تراب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 137
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