ت ر ب

Arabic

Etymology

For the semantic development to denote contemporaries and comrades, compare the völkisch usage of German Boden or staubgeboren, or Russian земля́ (zemljá, “soil, country”) and земля́к (zemlják, “compatriot”).

Root

ت ر ب • (t-r-b)

related to soil

Derived terms

Form I: تَرَبَ (taraba, “to soil”)
- Verbal noun: تَرْب (tarb)
- Active participle: تَارِب (tārib)
- Passive participle: مَتْرُوب (matrūb)
Form I: تَرِبَ (tariba, “to have soil adherent”)
- Verbal noun: تَرَب (tarab)
- Active participle: ?
- Passive participle: مَتْرُوب (matrūb)
Form II: تَرَّبَ (tarraba, “to soil”)
- Verbal noun: تَتْرِيب (tatrīb)
- Active participle: مُتَرِّب (mutarrib)
- Passive participle: مُتَرَّب (mutarrab)
Form III: تَارَبَ (tāraba, “to be contemporary to; to associate with”)
- Verbal noun: مُتَارَبَة (mutāraba)
- Active participle: مُتَارِب (mutārib)
- Passive participle: مُتَارَب (mutārab)
Form IV: أَتْرَبَ (ʔatraba, “to soil”)
- Verbal noun: إِتْرَاب (ʔitrāb)
- Active participle: مُتْرِب (mutrib)
- Passive participle: مُتْرَب (mutrab)
Form V: تَتَرَّبَ (tatarraba, “to be covered with soil”)
- Verbal noun: تَتَرُّب (tatarrub)
- Active participle: مُتَتَرِّب (mutatarrib)
- Passive participle: مُتَتَرَّب (mutatarrab)

تُرْبَة (turba, “soil”)
تُرَاب (turāb, “soil”)
تَرِب (tarib, “soiled, dusty”)
مَتْرَبَة (matraba, “place where soil is taken; destitution”)
تَرِيبَة (tarība); pl. تَرَائِب (tarāʔib)

References

Freytag, Georg (1830) “ت ر ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 187–188
Lane, Edward William (1863) “ت ر ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 300–301
Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ت ر ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 157