Grab

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English

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Grab

  1. A Singaporean company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments.
  2. The electronic mobile app of the same name that provides these services.

Noun

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Grab (plural Grabs)

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, informal) A taxi ride booked through the Grab app.
    I will take a Grab back home. ("I will book a taxi ride from Grab to return home.")

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German grap, from Old High German grap, from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (grave, trench, ditch), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (to dig, scratch, scrape). Related to graben (to dig).

Compare Low German Graf, Graff, Dutch graf, English grave, Danish grav, Icelandic gröf, Serbo-Croatian grȍb (grave) and grȏblje (graveyard, cemetery), Czech hrob (grave), Slovak hrob (grave), Polish grób.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡʁaːp/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ɡʁap/ (variant in Low German areas; but inflected forms always with a long vowel)
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  • Rhymes: -aːp, -ap

Noun

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Grab n (strong, genitive Grabes or Grabs, plural Gräber, diminutive Gräbchen n or Gräblein n)

  1. grave
    • 1844, Heinrich Heine, “Tragödie III”, in 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.
  2. tomb

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Polish

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Etymology

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From grab (hornbeam).

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Grab m pers

  1. a male surname

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Grab f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname