different between robes vs garb

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???bz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?bz/

Noun

robes

1. plural of robe

Anagrams

• Beros, Boers, Boser, Brose, Serbo-, Sober, bores, brose, sober

Asturian

Verb

robes

1. second-person singular present indicative of robar
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of robar

Catalan

Verb

robes

1. second-person singular present indicative form of robar

French

Noun

robes f

1. plural of robe

Anagrams

• orbes, sobre

Middle English

Noun

robes

1. plural of robe

Old French

Noun

robes f pl

1. oblique plural of robe
2. nominative plural of robe

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish revés in the meaning of "wrong side" (ac Kramer).

Adjective

robes

1. left
2. wrong

Portuguese

Noun

robes

1. plural of robe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?robes/, [?ro.??es]

Etymology 1

Noun

robes m pl

1. plural of rob

Etymology 2

Verb

robes

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of robar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of robar.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)b/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b

Etymology 1

From Middle French garbe (“graceful outline”) (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”) and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijan? (“to prepare”).

Noun

garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)

1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16^thc.]
2. A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17^thc.]

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

3. (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.

Translations

Verb

garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)

1. (transitive) To dress in garb.

Translations

Etymology 2

French gerbe; akin to German Garbe. Doublet of gerbe.

Noun

garb (plural garbs)

1. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
2. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
   • 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118.

     Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.

Translations

Anagrams

• ARGB, brag, grab

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?rb?, *g?rba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?arp/

Noun

garb m inan

1. a hump (rounded fleshy mass)
2. a hump (deformity of the human back)

Declension

Related terms

• garbaty
• garbus
• garbi? si?

Further reading

• garb in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• garb in Polish dictionaries at PWN