köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese erva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin herba. Cognate, among others, with Portuguese erva and Spanish hierba.
köken: Of the same origin as Old Armenian բալախ (balax, “Salicornia”), Armenian բալախ (balax, “Salicornia; (in dialects) the name of various grasses”). The direction of borrowing is uncertain. Klimov / Xalilov derive the Georgian from Armenian, whereas Ačaṙyan takes the derivation in the opposite direction. The same word is found in other languages of the region, including Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish, in…
Inherited from Old Spanish ervage, erbaje, erbage, herbaje, herbage (c. 1250), from Old French erbage, from Early Medieval Latin herbāticum, from Latin herba (“grass”). By surface analysis, hierba + -aje. Doublet of herbazgo.