פֿאַרב
'color'

ETYMOLOGY

Got. farwa (dative sg.) 'shape', Dutch verf 'paint', OHG far(a)wa, MHG var, varwe (the first forms with -b- in the 14th c.), NHG Farbe 'color, paint'; from PGmc ✱farwō- (or ✱farwa-), from the adjective ✱farwa- 'colorful': OHG faro, MHG vare; from PIE ✱porḱ-uó-, from the root ✱perḱ- 'colored, motley' (Kluge/Seebold thinks from ✱kʷor-wo-, from the root ✱kʷer-w- 'to make, form', with totally different cognates, e.g. Latin corpus.)
Related Sanskrit pŕ̥śni- 'spotted, varicolored', Greek περκνός 'dark-spotted'
{DW² 9: 136; Kluge/Seebold 2011: 277; Kroonen 2013: 130}
A11

WESTERN

Holland (Netherlands)

farben {HOLLAND, Beem, Jerosche]
- Kaddesch mit sibben farben. 'A mix. Kaddish was recited with various melodies. On Simchat Torah the cantor would use seven traditional melodies which were otherwise sung on special days in the year.' {Jerosche №418}

Alsace (France)

ˈfarvəšdɩgəˌraj פֿאַרבן־שטיקערײַ 'colored embroidery' {ALSACE, 47075 Mulhouse, 048-090}

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

farb ~ fărb ~ farp {WTCP, Budapest, Hutterer 1965: 135}

farb {WTCP, Vác, 47197}
- víˑfil ərláj farb͡m̩ וויפֿילערליי פֿאַרבן

CENTRAL

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

farp 'Farbe' {ETCP, Beranek 1941}