tourbe

== French == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tuʁb/ === Noun === tourbe f (plural tourbes) peat (soil) mob, rabble ==== Derived terms ==== tourbeux tourbière ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: torba → Galician: turba → Italian: torba → Romanian: turbă → Spanish: turba → Turkish: turba === Further reading === “tourbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === bouter, broute, brouté