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Afrikaans
Noun
verba
- plural of verbum
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin verba, plural of verbum (“word”) reanalysed as a singular.
Pronunciation
Noun
verba f (plural verbes)
- (in certain fixed expressions) word, speech
- joke, prank
1969, Jaume Vidal Alcover, Les quatre llunes:Deixaren de parlar de l'hort i feien verbes sobre la llegenda del tresor.- They left off talking about the garden and made jokes about the legend of the treasure.
2015, Sebastià Alzamora, La malcontenta:T'has pensat que ho dic de verbes, Salamanca?- You thought I said it as a joke, Salamanca?
Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
verba
- plural of verbum
Esperanto
Etymology
From verbo + -a.
Pronunciation
Adjective
verba (accusative singular verban, plural verbaj, accusative plural verbajn)
- verbal (pertaining to verbs)
Galician
Etymology
From Latin verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
Pronunciation
Noun
verba f (plural verbas)
- word
- gab, loquacity
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch verba (“verbs”), from Latin verba, verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vèrba (plural verba-verba)
- (grammar) verb, a word that indicates an action, event, or state.
- Synonym: kata kerja
Further reading
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
verba
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of verbum
Latvian
Noun
verba m
- genitive singular of verbs
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
verba n pl
- definite plural of verb
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
verba n pl
- definite plural of verb
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
verba f (plural verbas)
- budget (amount of money set aside for a project)
- Synonym: orçamento
Spanish
Noun
verba f (plural verbas)
- loquacity; gift of the gab
Further reading