ܓܪܳܒܳܐ [†] grbʾ grāḇā 1. leathern bottle; 2. vessel, jar, pitcher; 3. λάκκος well; 4. robe
Cf. MP grāb [glʾp] womb (CPD 37), ManParth. grʾb /grāβ/ womb (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 163); NP, Arab. ǰarāb, ǰirāb a kid-leather bag, in which travellers or shepherds carry provisions (Steingass 359). The Iranian origin, hesitantly suggested by LS, seems improbable: the word appears in various Semitic languages and its Semitic origin is mantained in the main etymological dictionaries: cf. Akkad. gurābu bag; reinforcement around an earthenware jar (CAD 5, 136: Aram. loanword, attested in Low Babylonian); Ethiop. gerāb leather bag, leather bottle, vessel of skin (Leslau 1987, 201); Aram. garbā; Arab. ǧirāb (Fraenkel 1886, 64, 81); etc. Consequently, it is more probable that MP grāb is a loanword from a Semitic language (Aramaic?) and that Syr. grbʾ is a genuine Semitic form rather than a loanword from Iranian ● leathern bottle 1Sm 1, 24; Jer 13, 12; ES 2, 125D; SB 104, 1; vessel, jar, pitcher Am 8, 1 (Hex); Lc 22, 10; ES 1, 333 E; am 1, 17u; λάκκος well Judith 7, 21; robe MiS 420b 26 (Chabot wrongly translates "bardes"); JaRS1 130, 5; BB 513, 1 (PS wrongly supposes a mistake) ◆ LS 130b; PS Comp. 77