Transliteration: 'dra ba
I. <verb> v.t. དྲས་པ་/ འདྲ་བ་/ དྲ་བ་/ དྲོས་/. "To cut up / out". This has the connotation not of simply cutting but of cutting a shape out of a larger, amorphous mass. E.g., [TC] དགུན་ཆས་འདྲ་འཚེམ་བྱེད་པ། "to cut out and sew the winter clothes"; ཤིང་སྡོང་པང་ལེབ་ཏུ་འདྲ་བ། "to cut the tree up into billets"; ཤེལ་སྒོ་དྲས་ནས་ཁྲ་མར་བསྒར་བ། "having cut the glass to size, he fixed it in place in the window frame". E.g., ཤ་གཅིག་ནས་དྲས་པའི་སྟི་ག་དང་། ཀོ་བ་གཅིག་ནས་དྲས་པའི་རྒྱུན་བུ། "a cut carved out from a single chunk of meat and a belt cut out from a single hide of leather".II. <adj> See under འདྲ་ for extensive notes. To be "similar" or "comparable to" something or for two things "to be alike". To be "the same" not in the sense of being exactly the same but in the sense of being the same for current purposes; for example, when one word is to be marked as equivalent to another in a dictionary, the adjectives མཉམ་པ་ or མཚུངས་པ་ or གཅིག་པ་ are not used but this term འདྲ་བ་ is used to indicate that, for current purposes the two words are comparable or essentially the same.
1) It is often used in the construction དང་འདྲ་བ་ meaning "with similarity to that (mentioned before the term itself)". E.g., [TC] གཞན་དོན་ལའང་རང་དོན་དང་འདྲ་བར་ལྟ་བ། "to see that other's aims are essentially the same as one's own"; ཆང་གིས་ར་བཟི་ནས་རོ་དང་འདྲ་བར་གྱུར་པ། "after getting drunk on beer, he became corpse-like". 2) When placed in the negative construction, it not only means "dis-similar" but also means "differing", "varying" and hence in some cases "various". E.g., [TC] གནས་ཚུལ་མི་འདྲ་བ། "differing circumstances" or "varying circumstances"; མི་རིགས་མི་འདྲ་བ། "various races"; ཤ་མདོག་མི་འདྲ་བ། "various skin colours". 3) It is also used to mean "such", "that sort of", "that kind of". E.g., [TC] དེ་འདྲ་བའི་ལས་ཀ་ "work of that sort / work of that kind / work such as that / work like that"; ཅི་འདྲ་བའི་སྐད་ཆ། "what kind of talk?".
III. <noun> "Likeness", "resemblance", "similarity", comparableness.