Number: 121
Proto-Semitic: *garab- ~ *gurgub- ~ *rugab-
Meaning: body 1; stomach, belly 2
Arabic: ǧurǧub-, ǧurǧubān- 2 'ventre' [BK 1 274]; cf. ǧrǧb 'manger' [ibid.]; ruǯb-, raǯab- 2 'part of body between the side and lower chest' BK 1 822
Epigraphic South Arabian: (?) SAB grb 1 'body, person' [SD 50]
Tigre: gärob 'body' [LH 574]
East Ethiopic: ZWY gäräbä 2 'big stomach of ruminants' [LGur 289] (acc. to Leslay, possibly < OROMO garbi)
Notes: Rather scarcely attested; see, however, AFRASIAN.
Note MSA: MHR gǝrǝbēt 'mass, group of people' [JM 123], JIB EAST gǝrbɛ́t do. [ibid.], likely a semantic development from 'body'.
[DRS 178]: ESA, TGR, ZWY (also MSA 'groupe des gens'); [LGur 289]: ZWY, TGR, ESA
