تربة

Arabic

Etymology

From the 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

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; 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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