Schabe
See also: schabe
German
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German schabe (“scraper, chaff, moulding; moth, cockroach”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German scaba (“scraper, plane”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *skabō (“scraper”). Related to German Low German Schabbe (“mange, scabies”), English scab.
Pronunciation
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Noun
Schabe f (genitive Schabe, plural Schaben)
Declension
Further reading
- “Schabe” in Duden online