تربة

Arabic

Root
ت ر ب (t-r-b)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tur.ba/

Noun

تُرْبَة • (turba) f (plural تُرَب (turab))

  1. dust; soil, ground
    Synonym: تُرَاب (turāb)
  2. burial ground, graveyard
  3. ellipsis of تُرْبَة حُسَيْنِيَّة (turba(t) ḥusayniyya, turbah, a piece of soil used for praying).

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: türbə
  • Ottoman Turkish: تربه (türbe)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “تربة”, 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) “تربة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 301
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تربة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 137
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