garbë

See also: garbe, Garbe, garbé, and garbė

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *garbā, from Proto-Indo-European *gr̥bʰ- (compare Old Prussian garbis (“hill”), Serbo-Croatian gȑba (“hump”), Irish gearb (“scab, mange”)).[1]

Noun

garbë f (plural garba, definite garba)

  1. nick or dent in a blade

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “garbë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 109-110
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