# garba
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

garba (countable and uncountable, plural garbas)
* A form of dance from the state of Gujarat in India, performed in a circle often around a lamp.

### Anagrams

* Braga, Gabar, gabra, Barga, Abgar, GABAR

## Albanian
### Noun

garba
* inflection of garbë:
** definite nominative singular
** indefinite nominative/accusative plural

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin garba (“sheaf”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡar.bə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡaɾ.ba]

### Noun

garba f (plural garbes)
* sheaf (bundle of stalks)

#### Derived terms

* agarbar
* garbera
* malgarbat

### Further reading

* “garba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “garba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Italian
### Verb

garba
* inflection of garbare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* braga

## Latin
### Etymology

From Frankish *garbā (“sheaf”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈɡar.ba/, [ˈɡärbä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈɡar.ba/, [ˈɡärbä]

### Noun

garba f (genitive garbae); first declension
* (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.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

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

### References

* "garba", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡarba/

### Noun

garba f
* caraway

#### Synonyms

* kimjel

#### Derived terms

* garbowina

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* gerba (Auvergne, Limousin)

### Etymology

From Latin garba (“sheaf”).

### Pronunciation

* (Languedoc) IPA: /ˈɡaɾβo/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

garba f (plural garbas)
* (Languedoc) sheaf

## Oromo
### Noun

garba
* sea

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡaɾba/ [ˈɡaɾ.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -aɾba
* Syllabification: gar‧ba

### Etymology 1

From Catalan garba

#### Noun

garba f (plural garbas)
* sheaf of some cereals cultivated to make bread

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

garba
* inflection of garbar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “garba”, 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

## Yagara
### Determiner

garba
* another

### References

* 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.