5 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
origin* 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 3.0