Grab

See also: grab

German

Etymology

From Middle High German grap, from Old High German grap, 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 and groblje (“grave”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Czech and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Slovak hrob (“grave”).

Pronunciation

• 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

Grab n (genitive Grabs or Grabes, plural Gräber, diminutive Gräbchen n or Gräblein n or Gräbelein 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. tomb

Derived terms

• wie ein Grab schweigen

Related terms

• graben

Further reading

• “Grab” in Duden online

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Polish

Etymology

From grab (“hornbeam”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Grab m pers or f

1. a masculine surname
2. a feminine surname

Declension

Masculine surname:

Declension of Grab

	singular	plural
nominative	Grab	Grabowie
genitive	Graba	Grabów
dative	Grabowi	Grabom
accusative	Graba	Grabów
instrumental	Grabem	Grabami
locative	Grabie	Grabach
vocative	Grabie	Grabowie

The feminine surname is indeclinable.