graba

See also: grąba, grabă, grabá, and grabą

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish grava.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gra‧ba
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaba/ [ˈɡɾ̪a.bɐ]

Noun

graba

1. gravel

Related terms

• grabado
• grabador

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish grava.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaba/ [ˈɡɾa.ba]
• Hyphenation: gra‧ba

Noun

grába (Basahan spelling ᜄ᜔ᜍᜊ)

1. gravel

Galician

Etymology

From Suevic [Term?] or Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰 (graba, “grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰróbʰ-, o-grade form of *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, bury”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaba/ [ˈɡɾa.β̞ɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈɡɾaba/ [ˈɡɾa.β̞ɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈħɾaba/ [ˈħɾa.β̞ɐ]

• Rhymes: -aba
• Hyphenation: gra‧ba

Noun

graba f (plural grabas)

1. ditch

   Synonym: cavorco

Related terms

• groba

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “graba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Gothic

Romanization

graba

1. romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.ba/
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: gra‧ba

Noun

graba

1. inflection of grab:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.ba/

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• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: gra‧ba
• Homophone: Graba

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Slavic *grabiti

Polish grabićdeverb.

Polish graba

Deverbal from grabić.

Interjection

graba

1. (colloquial) used as the linguistic equivalent of shaking hands

   Synonym: grabula

Noun

graba f

1. (colloquial) hand
2. (colloquial) handshake

Declension

Declension of graba

	singular	plural
nominative	graba	graby
genitive	graby	grab
dative	grabie	grabom
accusative	grabę	graby
instrumental	grabą	grabami
locative	grabie	grabach
vocative	grabo	graby

Related terms

adjective

• niezgrabny

verb

• grabić impf

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

graba m inan

1. genitive singular of grab

Noun

graba m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of grab

Further reading

• “graba”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “graba”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡraba]

Noun

graba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of grabă

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Graben, adapted with the feminine suffix -a.

Noun

graba f (Cyrillic spelling граба)

1. (Kajkavian) ditch

Related terms

• jarak

Further reading

• “graba”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga kajkavskoga književnog jezika [Dictionary of the Croatian Kajkavian literary language] (in Serbo-Croatian), https://kajkavski.hr, 1984–2026

Spanish

Verb

graba

1. inflection of grabar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish grava (“gravel”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaba/ [ˈɡɾaː.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: gra‧ba

Noun

graba (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜇᜊ)

1. gravel