torba

Meaning

bag, sack

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
tor‧ba
Pronounced as (IPA)
/toɾ.bɑ/
Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طوربه (torba, “bag”), vulgar of طوبره (tobra). Cognate to Tatar тубра (tubra), compare Armenian տոպրակ (toprak), a Turkic borrowing. Perhaps ultimately related to top (“ball”) in the sense of “round, swollen thing”.

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