• تُرْبَة (turba)

• IPA^(key): /tu.raːb/
  • (Gulf) IPA^(key): /traːb/

تُرَاب • (turāb) m (plural أَتْرِبَة (ʔatriba) or تِرْبَان (tirbān))

1. earth, soil, ground, dust (organic material, sand, etc., which covers the land)
2. (figurative) land, territory, soil

   أَرادَت أَن تَرْجِعَ إلَى تُرابِ الوَطَن.

   ʔarādat ʔan tarjiʕa ʔilā turābi al-waṭan.

   She wanted to return to the homeland’s soil.

• Maltese: trab
• → Ottoman Turkish: تراب (türâb), թիւրապ (türab), թուրապ (turab) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: türap

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “تراب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 188
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “تراب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 301.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تراب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 168
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تراب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 137

• թիւրապ (türab), թուրապ (turab) — Armeno-Turkish

Borrowed from Arabic تُرَاب (turāb, “earth, soil, dust”).

تراب • (türâb) (definite accusative ترابی (türâbı), plural اتربه (etribe) or تربان (tirbân))

1. dust, powder, fine, dry particles of solid matter that come from various sources such as soil and pollution

   Synonyms: توز (toz), خاك (hak), غبار (gubar)

2. earth, soil, ground, a mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth

   Synonyms: ارض (arz), زمین (zemin), طوپراق (toprak)

3. country, region, territory, district, land, tract, a geographical area of considerable but indefinite extent

   Synonyms: ارض (arz), اولكا (ülke), ایل (il), طوپراق (toprak), ناحیه (nâhiye)

• Turkish: türap

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “türap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4945
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “türâb”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[4] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1341
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تراب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5], Constantinople: Mihran, page 358
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[6], Vienna, column 1407
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تراب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[7], Vienna, column 1134
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “türap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تراب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 524