غريب

Root
غ ر ب (ḡ r b)
16 terms

Compare غَرُبَ (ḡaruba, “to be a stranger, to be strange”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣa.riːb/

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غَرِيب • (ḡarīb) (feminine غَرِيبَة (ḡarība), masculine plural غُرَبَاء (ḡurabāʔ), elative أَغْرَب (ʔaḡrab))

1. strange, peculiar, unusual
2. foreign, unfamiliar; exotic
3. outlandish
4. rare
5. amazing, wondrous
6. obscure
7. (Islam) supported only by the authority of one narrator (relative to Muhammad)

• Maltese: għarib
• → Azerbaijani: qəribə
• → Armenian: ղարիբ (ġarib)
• → Ottoman Turkish: غریب (ġarib)

  > Turkish: garip (inherited)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “غريب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie

غَرِيب • (ḡarīb) m (plural غُرَبَاء (ḡurabāʔ) or أَغْرَاب (ʔaḡrāb), feminine غَرِيبَة (ḡarība))

1. foreigner
2. outsider
3. stranger

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Root
غ ر ب
6 terms

From Arabic غَرِيب (ḡarīb).

• IPA^(key): /ɣa.riːb/, [ɣaˈriːb]

• Audio (Jerusalem):

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غريب • (ḡarīb) (feminine غريبة (ḡarībe), common plural غريبين (ḡarībīn) or غربا (ḡuraba), elative أغرب (ʔaḡrab))

1. foreign, alien, strange
2. unusual, extraordinary, strange

• أجنبي (ʔajnabi, “foreign”)

غريب • (ḡarīb) m (plural غريبين (ḡarībīn) or غربا (ḡuraba), feminine غريبة (ḡarībe))

1. stranger