د ر ب

Possibly this is not even a genuine root but the meanings of “to drill”, “to train” have developed from دَرْب (darb, “path”) from Ancient Greek Δέρβη (Dérbē, “Derbe”), a border town in Lycaonia at the Cilician Gates, since Derbe was a town to be passed for those who were drilled for war against the Greeks. The same even applies to Spain, the Pyrenees being called الدُرُوب (ad-durūb), to be passed for war against the Franks.

د ر ب • (d-r-b)

1. related to training

• Form I: دَرِبَ (dariba, “to accustom oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: دَرَب (darab), دُرْبَة (durba)
  • Active participle: دَارِب (dārib)
• Form II: دَرَّبَ (darraba, “to drill, to train”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدْرِيب (tadrīb)
  • Active participle: مُدَرِّب (mudarrib)
  • Passive participle: مُدَرَّب (mudarrab)
• Form IV: أَدْرَبَ (ʔadraba, “to enter the land of the enemy; to go fight the Greeks”)
  • Verbal noun: إِدْرَاب (ʔidrāb)
  • Active participle: مُدْرِب (mudrib)
  • Passive participle: مُدْرَب (mudrab)
• Form V: تَدَرَّبَ (tadarraba, “to train, to exercise”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَرُّب (tadarrub)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَرِّب (mutadarrib)
• Form Iq: دَرْبَسَ (darbasa, “to block, to shut”)
  • Verbal noun: دَرْبَسَة (darbasa)
  • Active participle: مُدَرْبِس (mudarbis)
  • Passive participle: مُدَرْبَس (mudarbas)
• Form IIq: تَدَرْبَسَ (tadarbasa, “to come forth, to advance”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَرْبُس (tadarbus)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَرْبِس (mutadarbis)

• مُدَرِّب (mudarrib, “trainer, coach”)
• دَرْبُوب (darbūb, “tractable”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “د ر ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 428–430
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “د ر ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 19
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “د ر ب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 684
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “د ر ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 866–867
• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, pages 296–297
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “د ر ب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 318