Where does “ग़रीब” come from?
ग़रीब (Hindi) comes from Arabic غَرِيب, from Arabic غَرُبَ — to be strange; to be a stranger, to be strange.
ग़रीब (Hindi): poor, impoverished; foreign, strange; poor person
Definitions
- poor, impoverished; foreign, strange; poor person
Ancestry of “ग़रीब”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Arabic | غَرِيب | foreign; strange, peculiar; stranger; strange,... |
| 2 | Arabic | غَرُبَ | to be strange; to be a stranger, to be strange |