tourbe

See also: tourbé

French

Etymology

From Middle French tourbe, from Old French tourbe, from Frankish *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dorbʰós (“tuft, lawn”). Cognate with Old High German zurba (“turf”), English turf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuʁb/

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Noun

tourbe f (plural tourbes)

1. peat (soil)
2. mob, rabble

Derived terms

• tourbeux
• tourbière

Descendants

• → Catalan: torba
• → Galician: turba
• → Italian: torba
• → Romanian: turbă
• → Spanish: turba
• → Turkish: turba

Further reading

• “tourbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• bouter, broute, brouté