# yerba
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish yerba. Doublet of herb.

### Noun

yerba (usually uncountable, plural yerbas)
* Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage maté.
** 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle‎:The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba, and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore.
** 1854, P. L. Simmonds, The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom‎:This was the place at which the leaves and small sprigs of the yerba tree, when brought from the woods, were first scorched--fire being set to the logs of wood within it.
** 1910, Various, Argentina From A British Point Of View‎:His preparations for breakfast are simple, and he is ready to start out after half an hour spent in imbibing a few mates full of yerba infusion.

#### Related terms

* yerba mate
* yerba santa

### References

* ↑ “yerba, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Further reading

* Yerba mate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Ilex paraguariensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Anagrams

* Bayer, Beary, Earby, Yebra, barye, bayer, beary, beray, by ear

## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin herba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʝeɾba/
* Rhymes: -eɾba
* Syllabification: yer‧ba

### Noun

yerba f (plural yerbas)
* grass

#### Derived terms

* yerba d'a manantía (“common fleabane”)
* yerba d'as cardelinas (“groundsel”)
* yerba luisa (“lemon verbena”)
* yerba negra (“black nightshade”)

### References

* “hierba”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “yerba”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin herba.

### Noun

yerba f (plural yerbes)
* grass

## Istriot
### Alternative forms

* gièrba

### Etymology

From Latin herba.

### Noun

yerba f
* grass

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish yerba and hierba.

### Noun

yerba
* grass
* herb

## Spanish
### Etymology

See hierba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʝeɾba/ [ˈɟ͡ʝeɾ.β̞a]
* IPA: (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeɾba/ [ˈɟ͡ʝeɾ.β̞a]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeɾba/ [ˈʃeɾ.β̞a]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeɾba/ [ˈʒeɾ.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -eɾba
* Syllabification: yer‧ba

### Noun

yerba f (plural yerbas)
* Alternative form of hierba
** 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo XX”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte:No es posible, señor mío, sino que estas yerbas dan testimonio de que por aquí cerca debe de estar alguna fuente o arroyo que estas yerbas humedece;It cannot be, my lord, but that this grass gives proof that there must be nearby some spring or brook to give it moisture;
* yerba (Ilex paraguariensis)
* tarantula
    Synonym: tarántula

#### Derived terms

* enyerbar
* yerba buena
* yerba del manso
* yerba dulce
* yerba mansa
* yerba mate
* yerba porosa
* yerboso

### Further reading

* “yerba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10