different between grebe vs gerbe

English

Etymology

From French grèbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?b/
• Rhymes: -i?b

Noun

grebe (plural grebes)

1. Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.

Synonyms

• (any of several waterbirds): dabchick

Translations

Anagrams

• Gebre, gerbe

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

grebe (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person singular present of grebati

Verb

grebe (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person singular present of grepsti

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???b/

Noun

gerbe (plural gerbes)

1. (now obsolete) A (wheat) sheaf.
2. Something resembling a (wheat) sheaf in appearance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

References

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

Anagrams

• Gebre, Grebe, grebe

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b/

Noun

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)

Descendants

• ? English: gerbe

Verb

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• berge

German

Verb

gerbe

1. inflection of gerben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative