tourbe

See also: tourbé

French

Etymology

From Middle French tourbe, from Old French tourbe, from Frankish *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dorbʰós (“tuft, lawn”). Cognate with Old High German zurba (“turf”), English turf.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tuʁb/
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Noun

tourbe f (plural tourbes)

peat (soil)
mob, rabble

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Galician: turba
→ Italian: torba
→ Romanian: turbă
→ Spanish: turba
→ Turkish: turba

Further reading

“tourbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

bouter, broute, brouté

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