جورب

Possibly from (or cognate with) Persian جوراب (jôrâb, “sock, stocking”), with earlier forms گورب (gôrab), گوراب (gôrâb), speculatively a metathesis of Middle Persian *gōrb/pāy (literally “grave of foot”), which has potential to be folk etymology. Alternatively, the Persian and/or the Arab forms might have been borrowed from Aramaic גְּרָב / גְּרַב (gəraḇ, gərāḇ, “skin bottle or pouch”), though it remains unknown in which language the new meaning as a footwear developed first. Cognate with Classical Syriac ܓܽܘܪܒܳܐ (gurbā) and Central Kurdish گۆروا (gorwa), گۆرە (gore); the Modern Hebrew גֶּרֶב (gérev) is a modern invention based on the Arabic root.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaw.rab/

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جَوْرَب • (jawrab) m (plural جَوَارِب (jawārib) or جَوَارِبَة (jawāriba))

1. sock
2. stocking

• → Hebrew: גֶּרֶב

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جورب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 254