د ر ب

Possibly this is not even a genuine root but the meanings of “to drill”, “to train” have developed from دَرَب‎ (darab, “path”) from Ancient Greek Δέρβη (Dérbē, “Derbe”), a border town in Lycaonia at the Cilician Gates, since Derbe was a town to be passed for those who were drilled for war against the Greeks. The same even applies to Spain, the Pyrenees being called الدُرُوب (ad-durūb), to be passed for war against the Franks.

د ر ب • (d-r-b)

1. related to training

• Form I: دَرِبَ‎ (dariba, “to accustom oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: دَرَب‎ (darab), دُرْبَة‎ (durba)
  • Active participle: دَارِب‎ (dārib)
• Form II: دَرَّبَ‎ (darraba, “to drill, to train”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدْرِيب‎ (tadrīb)
  • Active participle: مُدَرِّب‎ (mudarrib)
  • Passive participle: مُدَرَّب‎ (mudarrab)
• Form IV: أَدْرَبَ‎ (ʾadraba, “to enter the land of the enemy; to go fight the Greeks”)
  • Verbal noun: إِدْرَاب‎ (ʾidrāb)
  • Active participle: مُدْرِب‎ (mudrib)
  • Passive participle: مُدْرَب‎ (mudrab)
• Form V: تَدَرَّبَ‎ (tadarraba, “to train, to exercise”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَرُّب‎ (tadarrub)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَرِّب‎ (mutadarrib)

• دَرْبُوب‎ (darbūb, “tractable”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “د ر ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 428–430
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “د ر ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 19
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “د 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 (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 684
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “د ر ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 866–867
• Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 296–297
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “د ر ب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 318