gerbe

Late 16th century, from French gerbe, from Frankish garba or garbe.

• IPA^(key): /dʒɜːb/

gerbe (plural gerbes)

1. (now obsolete) A (wheat) sheaf
2. Something resembling a (wheat) sheaf in appearance
3. (mathematics) an abstract construction in homological algebra and geometry providing a certain type of generalisation for a sheaf
4. (pyrotechnics) A kind of ornamental firework.

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• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

• Gebre, Grebe, grebe

From Middle French gerbe, garbe, from Old French garbe, jarbe, from Frankish *garba, from Proto-Germanic *garbō.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁb/

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gerbe f (plural gerbes)

1. (agriculture) sheaf (of wheat)
2. spray, bouquet (of flowers)
3. collection, anthology (of pieces of literature)
4. (heraldry) garb
5. (historical) tithe on crops under the Ancien Régime
6. (slang) puke, throw up (vomit)

gerbe

1. first-person singular present indicative of gerber
2. third-person singular present indicative of gerber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gerber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gerber
5. second-person singular imperative of gerber

• “gerbe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• berge

gerbe

1. First-person singular present of gerben.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of gerben.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of gerben.
4. Imperative singular of gerben.