درب

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

دَرْب • (darb) m (plural دُرُوب‎ (durūb))

1. path, pass, way

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

• → Classical Syriac: ܕܰܪܒܳܐ‎ (darbā, “way, path”)

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.

دَرِبَ • (dariba) I, non-past يَدْرَبُ‎‎ (yadrabu)

1. to accustom oneself, become familiar with
2. (construed with بِ‎ (bi)) to practice in
3. to be badly off

دَرَب • (darab) m

1. verbal noun of دَرِبَ (dariba, “to accustom oneself, become familiar, practice in”) (form I)

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

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دَرَّبَ • (darraba) II, non-past يُدَرِّبُ‎‎ (yudarribu)

1. to accustom, to familiarize
2. to exercise, to drill
3. to show oneself enduring
4. to guide, to direct

• 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, page 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

From Middle Persian dlpʾs (darbās).

درب • (darb)

1. gate