جاروب

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• جارو (caru), چاروب (çarub)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جاروب (jārūb, “broom”), from the combination of Middle Persian gywʼk' (gyāg, “place”) + lwp- (rōb, “rub, sweep”).

Noun

جاروب • (carub) (definite accusative جاروبی (carubu), plural جاروبلر (carublar))

1. broom, besom, a domestic utensil used for sweeping

   Synonyms: سوپوركه (süpürge), مكنسه (miknese)

Derived terms

• جاروب زن (carub zen, “sweeper”)
• جاروب كش (carub keş, “sweeper”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: carub

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “carub”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 759
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cârûb”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 155
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scopæ”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1520
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جاروب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1547
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جاروب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 634

Persian

Alternative forms

• جارو (jâru)

Etymology

Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gywʼk'-rōb /⁠gyāg-rōb⁠/, “broom”). By surface analysis, جا (jâ, “place”) +‎ روب (rub, present stem of روبیدن (rubidan, “to sweep”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.ˈɾoːβ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.ɾúːb]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.ɾúːb]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.ɾúːb]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɔː.ɾúb̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɒː.ɹúːb̥], [d͡ʒɒː.ɹúː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɔ.ɾɵ́b], [d͡ʒɔ.ɾúb]

Readings
Classical reading?	jārōḇ
Dari reading?	jārūb
Iranian reading?	jârub, jâru
Tajik reading?	jorüb, jorub

Noun

Dari	جاروب، جارو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷорӯб, ҷоруб

جاروب • (jârub)

1. broom
2. (Dari, colloquial) vacuum
3. (dialectal) mop

Descendants

• → Gujarati: જારૂબ (jārūb)
• → Ottoman Turkish: جاروب (carub), جارو (caru), چاروب (çarub)
  • Turkish: carub

Derived terms

• جاروبرقی (jâru barqi, “vacuum”)

 

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “gyāg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 38
• Raham, Asha. (2017), "rōb-,gyāgrōb", in Pārsīg Language (The so-called Pahlavi), Tehran, Iran, Sade Publication: page 338