gerbe

See also: gerbé and gërbë

English

Etymology

Late 16th century, from French gerbe, from Frankish garba or garbe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒɜːb/

Noun

gerbe (plural gerbes)

  1. (now obsolete) A (wheat) sheaf
  2. Something resembling a (wheat) sheaf in appearance
  3. (mathematics) an abstract construction in homological algebra and geometry providing a certain type of generalisation for a sheaf
  4. (pyrotechnics) A kind of ornamental firework.
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French

Etymology

From Middle French gerbe, garbe, from Old French garbe, jarbe, from Frankish *garba, from Proto-Germanic *garbō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɛʁb/
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Noun

gerbe f (plural gerbes)

  1. (agriculture) sheaf (of wheat)
  2. spray, bouquet (of flowers)
  3. collection, anthology (of pieces of literature)
  4. (heraldry) garb
  5. (historical) tithe on crops under the Ancien Régime
  6. (slang) puke, throw up (vomit)

Verb

gerbe

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gerber
  2. third-person singular present indicative of gerber
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gerber
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gerber
  5. second-person singular imperative of gerber

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German

Verb

gerbe

  1. First-person singular present of gerben.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of gerben.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of gerben.
  4. Imperative singular of gerben.
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