hierba

Spanish

Alternative forms

• yerba

Etymology

From Latin herba (compare Catalan herba, French herbe, Galician herba, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian erba, Portuguese erva, Romanian iarbă), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“to grow, become green”), *g(')herə-.

Pronunciation

•  

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝeɾba/ [ˈɟ͡ʝeɾ.β̞a]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeɾba/ [ˈɟ͡ʝeɾ.β̞a]
• IPA^(key): (Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈjeɾba/ [ˈjeɾ.β̞a]

• Homophones: hierva, yerba

Noun

hierba f (plural hierbas)

1. herb
2. grass (the plant itself)
3. weed
4. (slang) marijuana

Derived terms

• herbar (verb)
• hierbero m

See also

• grama