استغرب

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Arabic

Etymology

From غَرُبَ (ḡaruba, to be strange) and غَرْب (ḡarb, west).

Verb

اِسْتَغْرَبَ (istaḡraba) X, non-past يَسْتَغْرِبُ‎ (yastaḡribu)

  1. to find (something) weird, strange, odd, unusual, funny
  2. to dismiss, to find (something) absurd, outrageous
  3. to be westernized, to adopt Western mannerisms or behavior

Conjugation