Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

garbe

/ɡˈɑɹb/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English

Syllables: garbe
IPA: /ɡˈɑɹb/

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from German.

noun

Obsolete form of garb (“clothing”).

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Garbe has been CMO for just over two years, according to his LinkedIn profile. The company said its US chief commercial officer Kyle Norrington will oversee marketing going forward."

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”)).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: -, gerba

Usage

Inflected Forms

Garbes (plural)

Rhymes With

carb barb garb arb harb barbe zarb farb

Questions

How do you pronounce garbe?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡˈɑɹb/.
What does garbe mean?: A surname from German.
Where does garbe come from?: It is traced to German.

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