Grab

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English

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Etymology

From grab.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Grab

  1. A Singaporean company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments.
  2. The electronic mobile app of the same name that provides these services.

Noun

Grab (plural Grabs)

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, informal) A taxi ride booked through the Grab app.
    I will take a Grab back home. ("I will book a taxi ride from Grab to return home.")

German

Etymology

From Middle High German grap, from Old High German grap, from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Related to graben (“to dig”).

Compare Low German Graf, Graff, Dutch graf, English grave, Danish grav, Icelandic gröf, Serbo-Croatian grȍb (“grave”) and grȏblje (“graveyard, cemetery”), Czech hrob (“grave”), Slovak hrob (“grave”), Polish grób.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁaːp/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ɡʁap/ (variant in Low German areas; but inflected forms always with a long vowel)
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  • Rhymes: -aːp, -ap

Noun

Grab n (strong, genitive Grabes or Grabs, plural Gräber, diminutive Gräbchen n or Gräblein n)

  1. grave
    • 1844, Heinrich Heine, “Tragödie III”, in Neue Gedichte:
      Auf ihrem Grab da steht eine Linde, / drin pfeifen die Vögel und Abendwinde, / und drunter sitzt, auf dem grünen Platz, / der Müllersknecht mit seinem Schatz.
      Upon your grave there stands a linden wherein whistle the fowls and evening-wind, and thereunder sits upon the green square the miller's servant with his care.
  2. tomb

Declension

Declension of Grab
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Grab die Gräber
genitive eines des Grabes, Grabs der Gräber
dative einem dem Grab, Grabe1 den Gräbern
accusative ein das Grab die Gräber

1Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

From grab (“hornbeam”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Grab m pers

  1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Grab
singular plural
nominative Grab Grabowie
genitive Graba Grabów
dative Grabowi Grabom
accusative Graba Grabów
instrumental Grabem Grabami
locative Grabie Grabach
vocative Grabie Grabowie

Proper noun

Grab f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname
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