gropë

See also: grope and Grope

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to scratch, dig”). Akin to Romanian groapă. Compare Old Norse grǫf (“pit, pothole, grave”), grǫptr (“graving, grave, burial, funeral”), Old Church Slavonic гробъ (grobŭ, “grave”) and English grave. Alternatively related to southeastern Montenegrin dialectal form (grȍp) of Serbo-Croatian grȍb.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gro‧pë

Noun

gropë f (plural gropa, definite gropa, definite plural gropat)

1. pit

Declension

Declension of gropë

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	gropë	gropa	gropa	gropat
accusative			gropën
dative	grope	gropave	gropës	gropavet
ablative		gropash

Derived terms

• zgrof

Related terms

• grabë