| 1 | Old French | torbler | Alternative form of trobler |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | turbulo | I disrupt, unsettle, agitate, upset, trouble,... |
| 3 | Latin | turbula | disorderly group, a little crowd or people;... |
| 4 | Latin | turba | stir, disturbance, tumult, uproar, trouble; mob,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τύρβη | disorder, confusion, tumult; poetic rout, revelry |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | twerH- | to enclose, fence in; to grab, seize; to stir |