درب

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δέρβη (Dérbē, “Derbe”), a border town in Lycaonia at the Cilician Gates.

دَرْب • (darb) m (plural دُرُوب (durūb))

1. path, pass, way

• دَرْب التَّبَّانَة (darb at-tabbāna, “Milky Way”)
• دَرَّاب (darrāb, “way guardian”)

• → Classical Syriac: ܕܰܪܒܳܐ (darbā, “way, path”)
• → Old Spanish: adarve, adarbe
  • Spanish: adarve

From the root د ر ب (d-r-b). Possibly these verbs are all denominally formed from دَرْب (darb), since Derbe was a town to be passed for those who were drilled for war against the Greeks. The same even applies to Spain, the Pyrenees being called الدُرُوب (ad-durūb), to be passed for war against the Franks.

دَرِبَ • (dariba) I (non-past يَدْرَبُ (yadrabu), verbal noun دَرَب (darab) or دُرْبَة (durba))

1. to accustom oneself to, become familiar with [with بِ (bi) ‘something’]
2. to practice, to train, to be skilled [with بِ (bi) ‘in something’]
3. to be badly off

دَرَب • (darab) m

1. verbal noun of دَرِبَ (dariba, “to accustom oneself, become familiar, practice in”) (form I)

Causative of دَرِبَ (dariba, “to accustom oneself, become familiar, practice in”).

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دَرَّبَ • (darraba) II (non-past يُدَرِّبُ (yudarribu), verbal noun تَدْرِيب (tadrīb))

1. to accustom, to familiarize
2. to exercise, to drill
3. to show oneself enduring
4. to guide, to direct

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “درب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 428–430
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “درب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 19
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “درب”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 684
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “درب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 866–867
• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[5] (in German), volume 51, pages 296–297
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “درب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 318

From Middle Persian dlpʾs (darbās), a derivative of Proto-Iranian *dwā́r, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰwā́r, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr (“door”).^[1]

درب • (darb)

1. gate

From Arabic دَرَّبَ (darraba).

• IPA^(key): /dar.rab/, [ˈdar.rab]

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درّب • (darrab) II (present بدرّب (bidarreb))

1. (transitive) to train