Given name & surname

Gharib

“stranger, foreigner”

Gharib is a surname from Arabic.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Gharib goes back to Arabic غَرِيب, meaning “stranger, foreigner.”

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Where it comes from

Gharib comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic غَرِيب (“stranger, foreigner”); its root is Arabic غ ر ب.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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