grava

Catalan

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Old French grave (“sandbank”).

Noun

grava f (plural graves)

1. gravel

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

grava

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

Further reading

• “grava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “grava”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “grava” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “grava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Etymology

From French, Italian and English grave, ultimately from Latin gravis. Compare German gravitätisch.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: gra‧va

Adjective

grava (accusative singular gravan, plural gravaj, accusative plural gravajn)

1. important
   • 2000, Wolfgang Kirschstein, “Tolstoj instigas ankoraŭ hodiaŭ”, in La Ondo de Esperanto‎, volume 11, number 73, archived from the original on 11 May 2013:

     Resurekto kaj pasko estas la plej gravaj okazintaĵoj en la ortodoksa kredo, sed ĉe Tolstoj ne temas pri tiu resurekto aŭ iu transmonda miraklo.

     The Resurrection and Easter are the most important events in the orthodox belief, but Tolstoy's work isn't about that resurrection or any otherworldly miracle.

2. serious, grave
   • 1912, E. Ĉefeĉ, "Pluaj argumentoj por pruvi, ke la teorio: "La radikoj en Esperanto havas gramatikan karakteron" kontraustaras la intencojn de la fundamento":

     Grava danĝero por la estonteco de nia lingvo kuŝas, laŭ mia opinio, en la akcepto de tiu propono.

     A serious danger for the future of our language lies, in my opinion, in the acceptance of that proposal.

Antonyms

• malgrava (“unimportant, trivial”)

Derived terms

• gravaĵo (“something important”)
• grave (“importantly”)
• graveco (“importance”)
• gravi (“to be important”)
• gravulo (“important person, VIP”)
• ne gravas (“it’s not important; it doesn't matter”)

Faroese

Etymology

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

Verb

grava (third person singular past indicative gróv, third person plural past indicative gróvu, supine grivið)

1. to dig

Conjugation

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

grava

1. third-person singular past historic of graver

Ido

Adjective

grava

1. heavy, weighty

Synonyms

• pezoza

Antonyms

• lejera

Italian

Verb

grava

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

Latin

Verb

gravā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of gravō

References

• grava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• graven

Noun

grava m or f

1. definite feminine singular of grav

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑːʋɑ/

Noun

grava f

1. definite singular of grav

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• grave (e infinitive)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɡrɑːʋɑ/

Verb

grava (present tense grev, past tense grov, past participle grave, passive infinitive gravast, present participle gravande, imperative grav)

1. dig

   Kor djupt har du tenkt å grava?

   How deep do you intend to dig?

References

• “grava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• græva

Etymology

From Old Norse grafa, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

Verb

grava

1. to dig
2. to bury

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: grava, gräva

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: gra‧va

Verb

grava

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French graver.

Verb

a grava (third-person singular present gravează, past participle gravat) 1st conj.

1. to engrave

Conjugation

Related terms

• gravare
• gravat
• gravor
• gravură

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaba/
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: gra‧va

Etymology 1

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

grava

Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from Catalan grava (“gravel”).

Noun

grava f (plural gravas)

1. gravel

   Synonym: gravilla

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: graba
• → Cebuano: graba
• → Hiligaynon: grabas
• → Tagalog: graba

Etymology 2

Verb

grava

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

Further reading

• “grava”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

gravning

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

Formed from grav (“grave”), referring to burying fish in the ground.

Verb

grava (present gravar, preterite gravade, supine gravat, imperative grava)

1. (cooking) to dry-cure with a mix of salt, sugar, and spices (commonly salmon, herring, or common whitefish, but also used for red meat)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• gravlax

Related terms

• gravning

Adjective

grava

1. inflection of grav:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

References

• grava in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• grava in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• grava in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)