herba

Inherited from Old Catalan erba, from Latin herba, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈer.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈeɾ.ba]

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herba f (plural herbes)

1. herb
2. grass
3. (slang) marijuana

• “herba”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “herba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “herba” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “herba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From herbo +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈherba/
• Rhymes: -erba
• Hyphenation: her‧ba

herba (accusative singular herban, plural herbaj, accusative plural herbajn)

1. grassy, herbal (of or pertaining to grass)

• erva (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese erva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin herba. Cognate, among others, with Portuguese erva and Spanish hierba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɾ.βɐ]

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herba f (plural herbas)

1. herb (plant lacking wood)

   Synonym: planta

2. weed
3. grass

   Synonym: grama

4. (uncountable) grass, herbage, pasture

   Synonym: pasto

• herba doce
• herbal (“meadow”)
• herbeira (“meadow”)
• Herbosa
• Penerbosa

• herbáceo

• “herba”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “erva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “erva” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “herba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “herba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “herba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “herba”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-dʰ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”), and compared to grāmen (“grass, turf”) and English grass. However, de Vaan is skeptical of this derivation, preferring to reconstruct *gʰreh₁- as *ǵʰreh₁- instead, noting that *gʰer-dʰ cannot be derived from *ǵʰreh₁-, and leaves the origin open.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhɛr.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛr.ba]

herba f (genitive herbae); first declension

1. grass, herbage
2. herb
3. weeds
4. plant

First-declension noun.

• (grass, herb): grāmen

• “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "herba", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• herba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
    
  • the crop is in the blade: messis in herbis est (Liv. 25. 15)
    
  • your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition: adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)
    
• herba in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• yerba

Inherited from Latin herba.

herba f

1. grass

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés

From English herb, from Middle English herbe, erbe, from Old French erbe (French herbe), from Latin herba.

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [hə(r).bə]
  • Rhymes: -bə, -ə
• (Baku) IPA^(key): [hə(r).ba]
  • Rhymes: -ba, -a
• Hyphenation: her‧ba

herba (Jawi spelling هربا, plural herba-herba)

1. A herb:
   1. Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
   2. A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
   3. (botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.

• “herba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.