garba

garba (countable and uncountable, plural garbas)

1. A form of dance from the state of Gujarat in India, performed in a circle often around a lamp.

• Abgar, Barga, Braga, Gabar, gabra

From Frankish *garba, from Proto-Germanic *garbō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to grab; gather up; rake”). Cognate with French gerbe, Spanish garba.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾ.bə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾ.ba/

garba f (plural garbes)

1. sheaf (bundle of stalks)

• “garba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “garba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “garba” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “garba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

garba

1. inflection of garbare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• braga

From Old High German garba (“sheaf”), from Proto-Germanic *garbō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to grab; gather up; rake”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.ba/, [ˈɡärbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.ba/, [ˈɡärbä]

garba f (genitive garbae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) A sheaf: a unit of arrows, grain, etc.
   • c. 1300,, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris

     Garba asseris constat ex triginta peciis.

     The sheaf of arrows [lit. shafts] is formed from thirty pieces.

First-declension noun.

• → Catalan: garba
• → French: gerbe
• → Occitan: garba
• → Spanish: garba

• garba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “garba”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

Borrowed from German Garbe (“yarrow”) (now only in the compound Schafgarbe), from Proto-West Germanic *garwu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡarba/

garba f

1. caraway

• kimjel

• garbowina

• gerba (Auvergne, Limousin)

From Frankish *garba, from Proto-Germanic *garbō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to grab; gather up; rake”). Cognate with French gerbe, Catalan garba.

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾβo/

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garba f (plural garbas)

1. (Languedoc) sheaf

garba

1. sea

From Frankish *garba, from Proto-Germanic *garbō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to grab; gather up; rake”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾba/ [ˈɡaɾ.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾba
• Syllabification: gar‧ba

garba f (plural garbas)

1. sheaf of some cereals cultivated to make bread.

garba

1. inflection of garbar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “garba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

garba

1. another

• Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.