tourbe
See also: tourbé
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French tourbe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French tourbe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *turba, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *turbaz (“turf”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dorbʰós (“tuft, lawn”). Cognate with Old High German zurba (“turf”), English turf.
Pronunciation
Noun
tourbe f (plural tourbes)
- peat (soil)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tourbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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