# درب
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

دَرْب • (darb) m (plural دُرُوب (durūb))
* path, pass, way

##### Derived terms

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

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Verb

دَرِبَ • (dariba) I (non-past يَدْرَبُ (yadrabu), verbal noun دَرَب (darab) or دُرْبَة (durba))
* to accustom oneself to, become familiar with [with بِ (bi) ‘something’]
* to practice, to train, to be skilled [with بِ (bi) ‘in something’]
* to be badly off

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

دَرَب • (darab) m
* verbal noun of دَرِبَ (dariba, “to accustom oneself, become familiar, practice in”) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

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

#### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

#### Verb

دَرَّبَ • (darraba) II (non-past يُدَرِّبُ (yudarribu), verbal noun تَدْرِيب (tadrīb))
* to accustom, to familiarize
* to exercise, to drill
* to show oneself enduring
* to guide, to direct

##### Conjugation
### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “درب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (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 (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 (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 684
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “درب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 866–867
* Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (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

## Chadian Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic دَرْب (darb), from Ancient Greek Δέρβη (Dérbē).

#### Noun

درب • (derib) m (plural دروب (durūb))
* way, path, passage

### Etymology 2

From Arabic دَرَّبَ (darraba).

#### Verb

درب • (darrab) II (non-past يدرب (yidarrib))
* to train

### References

* Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎ (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, pages 39, 41
* Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999) Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien ~ Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, pages 372, 384

## Persian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [daɾβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪äɾb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪äɾb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪äɾb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪äɾb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪æɹb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪äɾb]

### Noun

درب • (darb)
* gate

### References

* ↑ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 502

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic دَرَّبَ (darraba).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dar.rab/, [ˈdar.rab]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

درّب • (darrab) II (present بدرّب (bidarreb))
* (transitive) to train