grev

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Cornish

Adjective

grev

  1. soft mutation of krev

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

grev

  1. a short form of greve, used as a pre-name title

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French grève (“strike”).

Noun

grev f (Hebrew spelling גריב׳)

  2. strike (cessation of work)
    • 1998, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Mil i un Djoha‎, Matilda Koén-Sarano, page 7:
      Al bakal kuando abashi
      Yo serrado lo topí,
      I si salgo a viajar
      Una grev ay vo topar.
      Down to the shopkeeper when I went, I found closed, and if I go on a trip, there’s a strike I’m going to find.
    • 2003, Richard Ayoun, translated by Prof. Haïm-Vidal Sephiha, Djudeo-espanyoles: Los Kaminos de Una Komunidad‎, Judéo-Espagnol a Auschwitz, page 63:
      En los Payizes‐Bashos, ande los primeros arrevatamientos empesaron en 1941, los ovreros sindikados de Amsterdam izieron grev kontra los arrestos i las deportasiones a Mauthausen.
      In the Netherlands, where the first roundups started in 1941, Amsterdam’s unionised workers went on strike against the arrests and deportations to Mauthausen.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “grev”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Norman

Alternative forms

  • grève (continental Normandy, Jersey)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grava (attested in Medieval Latin; compare French grève), of pre-Latin origin.

Noun

grev f (plural grevs)

  1. (Sark) beach

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

grev

  1. present of grava

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.

Adjective

grev m (feminine singular greva, masculine plural grevs, feminine plural grevas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) heavy; weighty
  2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) difficult

Synonyms

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grève.

Pronunciation

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Noun

grev (definite accusative grevi, plural grevler)

  1. strike (labor action)

Descendants

  • → Northern Kurdish: grev

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “grev”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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