tourbe

1. (feminine) peat (soil)
2. (feminine) mob, rabble

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tuʁb/

Etymology

Cognate with Old High German: zurba

Cognate with English: turf

In summary

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.

Concepts

peat

turf

crowd

squeeze

throng

rabble

crush

Synonyms

affluence

cohue

foule

Translations

Torf

torba

turba

torf

turf

turfa

torba

τύρφη

ποάνθρακας

خث

turba

veen

bataklık kömürü

torba

torf