- drabh
- dissolve, drabhag, dregs, drabhas, filth, Early Irish drabar-slog, rabble; from English draff, allied to German treber, Norse draf. Stokes thinks that the Gaelic is allied to, not derived from, the English The English word drab is allied to draff, and so is dregs.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.