غ ر ب

See also: ع ر ب and ع ز ب

Arabic

Etymology

Related to Aramaic עָרַב (ʿāraḇ), Classical Syriac ܥܪܶܒ (ʿreḇ, “to go down, to set”), Hebrew עֶרֶב (ʿereḇ, “evening”).

Root

غ ر ب • (ḡ-r-b)

1. related to distantness, remoteness

Antonyms

• ق ر ب (q-r-b)

Derived terms

• Form I: غَرَبَ (ḡaraba)
  • Verbal noun: غُرُوب (ḡurūb), غَرْب (ḡarb)
  • Active participle: غَارِب (ḡārib)
  • Passive participle: مَغْرُوب (maḡrūb)
• Form II: غَرَّبَ (ḡarraba)
  • Verbal noun: تَغْرِيب (taḡrīb)
  • Active participle: مُغَرِّب (muḡarrib)
  • Passive participle: مُغَرَّب (muḡarrab)
• Form IV: أَغْرَبَ (ʔaḡraba)
  • Verbal noun: إِغْرَاب (ʔiḡrāb)
  • Active participle: مُغْرِب (muḡrib)
  • Passive participle: مُغْرَب (muḡrab)
• Form V: تَغَرَّبَ (taḡarraba)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَرُّب (taḡarrub)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَرِّب (mutaḡarrib)
• Form VIII: اِغْتَرَبَ (iḡtaraba)
  • Verbal noun: اِغْتِرَاب (iḡtirāb)
  • Active participle: مُغْتَرِب (muḡtarib)
• Form X: اِسْتَغْرَبَ (istaḡraba)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِغْرَاب (istiḡrāb)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَغْرِب (mustaḡrib)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَغْرَب (mustaḡrab)

• غَرْب (ḡarb, “west”)
• غُرْبَة (ḡurba, “foreignness”)
• غُرَاب (ḡurāb, “crow, raven”)
• غِرْبِيب (ḡirbīb, “jet-black”)
• غَرِيب (ḡarīb, “foreign”)
• غَرِيبَة (ḡarība, “wonder”)
• غَرَابَة (ḡarāba, “foreignness”)
• مَغْرِب (maḡrib, “west”)

Proper nouns

• اَلْمَغْرِب (al-maḡrib, “Morocco”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “غ ر ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 204–205
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غ ر ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 265–267
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “غ ر ب”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 448–453
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “غ ر ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2240–2244
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غ ر ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 909–910

Anagrams

• ر غ ب (r-ḡ-b)