grob

From Middle English grobben, variant of grubben. More at grub.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɒb/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɑb/

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

grob (third-person singular simple present grobs, present participle grobbing, simple past and past participle grobbed)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of grub.

• grobble

From Middle High German grob, grop, from Old High German grob, girob, of uncertain origin. Compare also Low German groff, Dutch grof, Saterland Frisian groaf, and English gruff.

Per Kroonen, from Proto-West Germanic *grob, from Proto-Germanic *grubaz (“coarse”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewbʰ- (“to grind”). If so, then related to Old High German griobo (“twigs, kindling, firewood”), from Proto-Germanic *greubô (“greaves”). Also related to Proto-Slavic *grǫbъ.

Alternatively, perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *gahrob, from Proto-Germanic *gahrubaz, *hrubaz (“scabby, crusty, rough”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewp- (“scab”). If so, cognate with Old High German riob (“scabby, leprous, mangy”), Old English hrēof (“rough, scabbed, leprous”)

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁoːp/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɔp/ (some northern speakers, but inflected forms always with long vowel)

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grob (strong nominative masculine singular grober, comparative gröber, superlative am gröbsten)

1. coarse, rough

   Antonym: fein

2. uncouth, rude, crude, ill-defined

• Grobian

• “grob” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “grob” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “grob” in Duden online

grōb

1. romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱

From Proto-Slavic *grobъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔp/

grob m inan

1. (archaic) ditch

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “grob”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “grob”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

If related to Old English hrēof (“mangy, rough”), then possibly from Proto-Germanic *hreubaz (“rough, crusty”). See also Dutch grof, as well as modern German Griebe (“greaves, crackling”).

grob

1. coarse

Borrowed from German grob.

grob m or n (feminine singular grobă, masculine plural grobi, feminine and neuter plural grobe)

1. coarse, rough

• grob in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grobъ, whence also Czech and Slovak hrob (“grave”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡrôb/

grȍb m (Cyrillic spelling гро̏б)

1. grave

• grȏblje, grobnica

From Proto-Slavic *grobъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔ́p/

grȍb m inan

1. grave

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• “grob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• graob

From Middle High German grap, from Old High German grap, from Proto-Germanic *grabą.

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grob n

1. grave