خرب

from Proto-Semitic. Compare Aramaic חֲרוֹב (“be laid waste”), Classical Syriac ܚܪܒ (“be laid waste”), Hebrew חָרַב (kharáv, “to be destroyed”).

خَرَبَ • (ḵaraba) I (non-past يَخْرِبُ (yaḵribu), verbal noun خَرْب (ḵarb))

1. to demolish, devastate
2. to pierce, bore (especially the ears)

خَرِب • (ḵarib)

1. ruined, wrecked, destroyed
   • 2020, “الفاجعة [The Tragedy]” (chapter 17), in أَحْمَد اَلْغَامِدِيّ [ʔaḥmad al-ḡāmidiyy], transl., اللقاءات المشرقية في بلاد الشام, تكوين للدراسات والأبحاث, translation of Oriental Encounters, Palestine and Syria, 1894-5-6 by Marmaduke Pickthall, →ISBN, page 115:

     أَبْصَرْنَا أَمَامَنَا عَلَى صَخْرَةٍ بُرْجًا خَرِبًا، لَمَّا جَعَلَتِ الشَّمْسُ تَنْغَمِسُ فِي الْبَحْرِ، وَٱكْتَسَى عُرْضُ الْجَبَلِ وَصُدُوعُهُ وَحُيُودُهُ رِدَاءً كَثِيرَ الْأَلْوَانِ.

     ʔabṣarnā ʔamāmanā ʕalā ṣaḵratin burjan ḵariban, lammā jaʕalati š-šamsu tanḡamisu fī l-baḥri, waktasā ʕurḍu l-jabali waṣudūʕuhu waḥuyūduhu ridāʔan kaṯīra l-ʔalwāni.

     [original: The sun was sinking down over the sea, the mountain wall with all its clefts and promontories wore a cloak of many colours, when we saw before us on a rock a ruined tower.]

• خَرَاب (ḵarāb, “ruin, devastation”)
• خَرَائِب (ḵarāʔib, “rubble, heap of rocks”)
• خَارِب (ḵārib, “destructor, desolater”)

• Federico Corriente, Ignacio Ferrando (2005) Diccionario avanzado de árabe, 2nd edition, pages 296-297

From Arabic خَرَبَ (ḵaraba).

• IPA^(key): /xi.rib/, [ˈxi.rɪb]

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خرب • (ḵirib) I (present بخرب (biḵrab))

1. (intransitive) to become ruined, to break down, to go bad

• خربان (ḵarbān, “broken, damaged, spoiled”)

From Arabic خَرَّبَ (ḵarraba).

• IPA^(key): /xar.rab/, [ˈxar.rab]

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خرّب • (ḵarrab) II (present بخرّب (biḵarreb))

1. (transitive) to ruin, to break, to damage

   Synonym: دمّر (dammar)