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The words for 'west' (gharb), 'crow, raven' (ghuraab), and 'strange, foreign' (ghariib) are all listed under gharaba, or more accurately the root gh-r-b, but that says nothing about actual etymology -- Arabic dictionaries cram everything that uses the same letters (consonants) under the same entry, with minor exceptions.
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The first Libyan newspaper, Tarablus al-gharb (Tripoli of the West), was published.
1858 2001
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The names Beminedab and Alatiel are purely imaginary.] [Footnote 114: _i. e._ to his wish, to whom fortune was mostly favourable in his enterprises.] [Footnote 115: _Il Garbo_, Arabic El Gherb or Gharb, [Arabic: al gharb], the West, a name given by the Arabs to several parts of the
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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