جورب

Meaning

1. sock
2. stocking

Concepts

stocking

sock

Synonyms

شراب

🥤

Translations

bas

meia

calza

κάλτσα

media

kous

Strumpf

chaussette

estoque

calcetín

calceta

calza

mantenimiento de existencias

Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒaw.rab/

Etymology

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.