garb

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɑː(ɹ)b/, X-SAMPA: /gA:(r\)b/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b

Etymology 1

From Middle French garbe (“graceful outline”) (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”) and English gear).

Noun

garb (plural garbs)

1. fashion, style of dressing oneself up [from late 16th c.]
2. A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17th c.]
3. (figuratively) a guise, external appearance

Translations

clothing

• Hungarian: öltözék (hu)
• Polish: strój (pl)

• Russian: одежда (ru) (odežda) f, наряд (ru) (narjad) m
• Scottish Gaelic: èideadh (gd) m

Verb

garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)

1. (transitive) To dress in garb.

Translations

to dress in garb

• Hungarian: öltöztet (hu)

Etymology 2

French gerbe; akin to German Garbe

Noun

garb (plural garbs)

1. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
2. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
   • 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118.

     Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.

Translations

wheat sheaf

• Hungarian: kéve (hu)

measure of arrows

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• Nahuatl: quemitl

Anagrams

• brag
• grab

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ, *gъrba

Pronunciation

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Noun

garb m

1. a hump (rounded fleshy mass)
2. a hump (deformity of the human back)

Declension

    declension of garb

	singular	plural
nominative	garb	garby
genitive	garba/garbu	garbów
dative	garbowi	garbom
accusative	garb	garby
instrumental	garbem	garbami
locative	garbie	garbach
vocative	garbie	garby