SLOnline

طَرْب

ṭarb (du. ṭárbi, pl. ṭírob)

basic morphological information

n. (m.)

piece of (fire)wood
дрова, полено
حطب

LS 208; CSOL I 687; CSOL II 620

text examples

wa-ṣö́ḷob ˁáŝer érhon wa-ˀégdaḥ ṭírob wa-sfέri ‘He slaughtered ten goats, then he brought firewood and cooking pots’ (CSOL I 16:27)

other notes

tóˀo ṭarb ‘(thin) as a pole’:

aḷ ksek kaḷ ṭeʸh óˀoz di-kánoʰ tóˀo ṭarb ‘I found only one goat which was (thin) as a pole’ (Bulakh 2024:203)

root

ṭrb 2

etymology

From proto-MSA *ṯ̣arb- ‘piece of wood’. Further etymology uncertain (cf. Kogan 2015:575).

continental MSA