herbe

Inherited from Old French erbe, herbe, from Latin herba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“to grow, become green”).

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɛʁb/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [zæb]

herbe f (plural herbes)

1. grass (the plant)
2. (colloquial) weed; marijuana; ganja; cannabis

• “herbe” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
• “herbe” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “herbe” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “herbe” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “herbe” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “herbe” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “herbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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herbe

1. inflection of herb:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

IPA^(key): [ˈɣʲɛɾʲbʲɛ]

hèrbe m

1. locative/vocative singular of hèrbas (“coat of arms”)

• eerbe, erbe, ȝerbe, oerbe, yerbe

From Old French erbe, from Latin herba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrb(ə)/, /ˈɛːrb(ə)/

herbe (plural herbes)

1. A herbaceous plant:
   1. A plant as an ingredient.
   2. A plant as used in alchemy, magic or medicine.
2. Herbage (plants, especially grass)
3. (rare) A woody plant; a tree.

• herbage
• herber

• English: herb (dialectal yerb)
• Scots: herb, yerb

• “hē̆rbe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

herbe oblique singular, f (oblique plural herbes, nominative singular herbe, nominative plural herbes)

1. Alternative form of erbe