grafa

• IPA^(key): /ˈkraːva/

  Rhymes: -aːva

From Old Norse grafa (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

grafa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative gróf, third-person plural past indicative grófu, supine grafið)

1. to dig
2. to bury
3. to engrave
4. to enquire
5. (impersonal) to suppurate, fester

• (to bury): greftra
• (to engrave): skera
• (to enquire): grafast, spyrja

• grafa skurði (“to trench”)
• grafa undan (“to undermine”)

• gröf

From the verb grafa (“to dig”).

grafa f (genitive singular gröfu, nominative plural gröfur)

1. an excavator, a digger; (large machine used to dig holes and trenches)

grafa

1. indefinite genitive plural of gröf

grafa

1. past participle of graf (“write; draw, sketch; graph, plot, chart”)

grafa m sg

1. genitive singular of grafadh

grafa m pl

1. vocative plural of graf (“graph, chart”)

• (grafà) IPA^(key): /ɡraˈfa/

grafà f (plural grafos) stress pattern 2^[1]

1. space between two vertical lines;^[1] column^[2]

• skiltis f

From Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

grafa

1. to dig
2. to bury
3. to engrave
4. to enquire (also in middle voice: grafask)
5. (impersonal) to cause the formation of pus (in something); suppurate

• grǫf

• Icelandic: grafa
• Faroese: grava
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: grave
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: grave, grava
• Elfdalian: gråvå
• Old Swedish: grava, græva
  • Swedish: grava, gräva; grafva, gräfva (pre-1906 spelling)
• Danish: grave

• “grafa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

grafa

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

grafa m sg

1. genitive singular of graf