garba

Borrowed from Gujarati ગરબા (garbā). Doublet of Delphos.

garba (countable and uncountable, plural garbas)

1. A form of dance from the state of Gujarat in India, performed in a circle often around a lamp.

• Braga, Gabar, gabra, Barga, Abgar, GABAR

garba

1. inflection of garbë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

From Latin garba (“sheaf”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡar.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡaɾ.ba]

garba f (plural garbes)

1. sheaf (bundle of stalks)

• “garba”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “garba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “garba” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “garba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Javanese garba, from Old Javanese garbha, from Sanskrit गर्भ (garbha, “the womb; fetus, embryo; child, offspring, brood; the inside, middle or interior of anything”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡarba/ [ˈɡar.ba]
• Rhymes: -arba
• Syllabification: gar‧ba

garba (plural garba-garba)

1. (archaic) belly, stomach

   Synonym: perut

• “garba”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

garba

1. inflection of garbare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• braga

Inherited from Old Javanese garbha (“womb; inside; foetus, embryo; child”), from Sanskrit गर्भ (garbha, “womb; fetus, embryo; child, offspring, brood; the inside, middle or interior of anything”).

garba

1. (literary) womb
2. (krama) abdomen, belly, stomach
3. (archaic) join, linkage, sequence

• → Indonesian: garba

• “garba”, in Javanese-Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Jawa-Indonesia] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta Special [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta], 2023.

From Frankish *garbā (“sheaf”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡar.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡar.ba]

garba f (genitive garbae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) A sheaf: a unit of arrows, grain, etc.
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris:

     Garba asseris constat ex triginta peciis.

     The sheaf of arrows [lit. shafts] is formed from thirty pieces.

First-declension noun.

• → Catalan: garba
• → French: gerbe
• → Occitan: garba
• → Spanish: garba

• "garba", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “garba”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

Borrowed from German Garbe (“yarrow”) (now only in the compound Schafgarbe), from Proto-West Germanic *garwu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡarba/

garba f

1. caraway

• kimjel

• garbowina

• gerba (Auvergne, Limousin)

From Latin garba (“sheaf”).

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾβo/

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garba f (plural garbas)

1. (Languedoc) sheaf

garba

1. sea

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾba/ [ˈɡaɾ.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾba
• Syllabification: gar‧ba

From Catalan garba

garba f (plural garbas)

1. sheaf of some cereals cultivated to make bread

garba

1. inflection of garbar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “garba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

garba

1. another

• Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.