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Cornish
Adjective
grev
- soft mutation of krev
Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
grev
- a short form of greve, used as a pre-name title
Ladino
Etymology
Borrowed from French grève (“strike”).
Noun
grev f (Hebrew spelling גריב׳)
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “grev”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
Norman
- 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)
- (Sark) beach
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
grev
- present of grava
Romansch
Etymology
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.
Adjective
grev m (feminine singular greva, masculine plural grevs, feminine plural grevas)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) heavy; weighty
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) difficult
Synonyms
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French grève.
Pronunciation
Noun
grev (definite accusative grevi, plural grevler)
- strike (labor action)
Descendants
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