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غ-ر-ب

The Arabic root غ-ر-ب (gh-r-b)

Form I verb غَرَبَ: to set

29 words in the dictionary are built from غ-ر-ب, including verbs in Forms I, II, VIII, Iq. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Adjective
strange
Noun
crow
Noun
foreigner
Adjective
western
Verb · Form I
to set
Noun
غُرُوب
set
Verb · Form I
غَرَبَ
to go away
Noun
غَرَابَة
strangeness

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

غَرَبَ · present يَغْرُبُ
Form I · The plain action

to set (of the sun, moon, etc.)

غُرُوب
Verbal noun
set
غَارِب
Active participle
مَغْرُوب
Passive participle
غَرَبَ · present يَغْرُبُ
Form I · The plain action

to go away, to depart, to withdraw, to leave

غَرْب
Verbal noun
west
غَارِب
Active participle
مَغْرُوب
Passive participle
غَرُبَ · present يَغْرُبُ
Form I · The plain action

to be a stranger; to be strange, odd, obscure, difficult to understand

غَرَابَة
Verbal noun
strangeness
Active participle
strange
Active participle
foreigner
غَرِيبَة
Derived noun
peculiarity
غَرَّبَ · present يُغَرِّبُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to go away, to depart, to withdraw, to leave; to go west, westward; to banish, to exile, to expatriate

تَغْرِيب
Verbal noun
westernization
مُغَرِّب
Active participle
مُغَرَّب
Passive participle
اِغْتَرَبَ · present يَغْتَرِبُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to be psychologically or societally alienated. (Different to ghurba (غربة), as ghurba is the physical alienation whilst ightirāb (اِغْتِرَاب) is the psychological alienation.)

غُرْبَة
Verbal noun
A physical alienation from oneself
مُغْتَرِب
Active participle
مُغْتَرَب
Passive participle
مَغْرَبَ · present يُمَغْرِبُ
Form Iq

to Moroccanize, to make Moroccan

مَغْرَبَة
Verbal noun
مُمَغْرِب
Active participle
مُمَغْرَب
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

Noun
crow
Adjective
western
مَغْرِب
Noun
place or time of sunset
أَغْرَب
Adjective
elative degree of غَرِيب
غَرَب
Noun
lachrymal fistula
مَغْرِبِيّ
Adjective
western
مَغْرِبِيّ
Noun
see the adjective
مَغْرَبِيّ
Noun
a member of the مَغَرْبَة tribe situated between Libya and…
مَغْرَبِيّ
Adjective
related to the مَغَرْبَة tribe situated between Libya and t…
غُرَاب
Noun
bend of the scabbard
غُرَيْبَة
Noun
sandie
غِرْبِيب
Adjective
raven-black
مَغْرِبَان
Noun
the east and the west
مُسْتَغْرِب
Adjective
surprised
مُسْتَغْرَب
Adjective
bizarre

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