The story
- Old French · derived fromgerba“wheatsheaf”
- English todayGarbe
* As a German surname, variant of Garb, which is converged from words such as gerben (“to tan”) and Ger (“spear”). Compare the surnames Gerber, Gerhardt. * As a French surname, from Old French gerba (“wheatsheaf”) (see modern verb gerber (“to sheave”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.