garbë

See also: garbe, Garbe, garbé, and garbė

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *garbā, from Proto-Indo-European *gr̥bʰ- (compare Old Prussian garbis ‘hill’, Serbo-Croatian gȑba ‘hump’, Irish gearb ‘scab, mange’)[1].

Noun

garbë f (indefinite plural garba, definite singular garba)

  1. nick or dent in a blade

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “garbë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 109-110
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