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Grab
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grab
English
+ (company)
Etymology
From en w:Grab Holdings Grab, a en Singaporean en company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments; the company name is from the word en grab.
Pronunciation
en /ɡɹæb/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Grab.wav Southern England
Noun
en Malaysia Singapore Philippines Vietnam informal A taxi ride booked through the Grab app.
en I will take a Grab back home. ("I will book a taxi ride from Grab to return home.")
German
Etymology
From de gmh grap, from de goh grap, from de gmw-pro *grab, from de gem-pro *grabą, gem-pro *grabō grave, trench, ditch, from de ine-pro *gʰrābʰ- to dig, scratch, scrape. Related to de graben to dig.
Compare nds Graf, nds Graff, nl graf, en grave, da grav, is gröf, sh grȍb grave and sh grȏblje graveyard, cemetery, cs hrob grave, sk hrob grave, pl grób.
Pronunciation
de /ɡʁaːp/ standard
de /ɡʁap/ variant in Low German areas; but inflected forms always with a long vowel
de De-Grab.ogg
de De-Grab2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de aːp ap 1
Noun
n,(e)s,^er ^chen,^lein
grave
de 1844 Heinrich Heine Tragödie III Neue Gedichte Auf ihrem Grab da steht eine Linde, / drin pfeifen die Vögel und Abendwinde, / und drunter sitzt, auf dem grünen Platz, / der Müllersknecht mit seinem Schatz. Upon your grave there stands a linden wherein whistle the fowls and evening-wind, and thereunder sits upon the green square the miller's servant with his care.
tomb
Declension
n,(e)s,^er
Hyponyms
de Ehrengrab Einzelgrab Fürstengrab Königsgrab Hügelgrab Massengrab Seemannsgrab Soldatengrab Urnengrab
Derived terms
de Grabbeigabe Grabeskirche Grabesstille Grabesritter Grabhügel Grabkammer Grabmal Grabrede Grabstätte Grabstein Grabtuch wie ein Grab schweigen Millionengrab Milliardengrab
Further reading
de Death
Polish
Etymology
From pl grab hornbeam.
Pronunciation
grab,grap
Proper noun
m-pr
pl m
Declension
Grabowie
Proper noun
f 1
pl f