English Explanatory Dictionary

Garbe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from German.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of garb (“clothing”).

Word forms

Garbe Garbes

Etymology

* As a German surname, variant of Garb, which is converged from words such as gerben (“to tan”) and Ger (“spear”). Compare the surnames Gerber, Gerhardt. * As a French surname, from Old French gerba (“wheatsheaf”) (see modern verb gerber (“to sheave”)).

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