garb

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.4 References 1.5 Anagrams 2 Polish 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Declension

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

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

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old High German^[1]

[edit] Noun

garb (plural garbs)

1. A type of dress or clothing.

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[edit] Verb

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

1. (transitive) To dress in garb.

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[edit] Etymology 2

French gerbe; akin to German Garbe and to Sanskrit^[1]

[edit] 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.

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• Notes:

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Etymology

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of abgr
• brag
• grab

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[edit] Polish

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ, *gъrba

[edit] Noun

garb m.

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

[edit] Declension

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	garb	garby
Genitive	garba/garbu	garbów
Dative	garbowi	garbom
Accusative	garb	garby
Instrumental	garbem	garbami
Locative	garbie	garbach
Vocative	garbie	garby