# تراب
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* تُرْبَة (turba)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tu.raːb/
** (Gulf) IPA: /traːb/

### Noun

تُرَاب • (turāb) m (plural أَتْرِبَة (ʔatriba) or تِرْبَان (tirbān))
* earth, soil, ground, dust (organic material, sand, etc., which covers the land)
* (figurative) land, territory, soil
    أَرادَت أَن تَرْجِعَ إلَى تُرابِ الوَطَن.ʔarādat ʔan tarjiʕa ʔilā turābi al-waṭan.She wanted to return to the homeland’s soil.

#### Descendants

* Maltese: trab
* → Ottoman Turkish: تراب (türäb), թիւրապ (türab), թուրապ (turab) — Armeno-Turkish
** Turkish: türap

#### References

* Freytag, Georg (1830) “تراب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 188
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “تراب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 301
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تراب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 168
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تراب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 137

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* թիւրապ (türab), թուրապ (turab) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُرَاب (turāb, “earth, soil, dust”).

### Noun

تراب • (türâb) (definite accusative ترابی (türâbı), plural اتربه (etribe) or تربان (tirbân))
* dust, powder, fine, dry particles of solid matter that come from various sources such as soil and pollution
    Synonyms: توز (toz), خاك (hak), غبار (gubar)
* earth, soil, ground, a mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth
    Synonyms: ارض (arz), زمین (zemin), طوپراق (toprak)
* country, region, territory, district, land, tract, a geographical area of considerable but indefinite extent
    Synonyms: اولكا (ülke), ایل (il), تراب (türâb)

#### Derived terms

* ابو تراب (ebu türâb, “ a nickname of Ali”, literally “the father of dust”)
* ترابی (türâbî, “pertaining to dust or earth”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: türap

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “türap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4945
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “türâb”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1341
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تراب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 358
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1407
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تراب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1134
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “türap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تراب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 524