corb

See also: còrb

English

Etymology

From Latin corbis (“basket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)b/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

corb (plural corbs)

1. (archaic) A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.

   Synonym: corf

   • 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:

     He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft. I raised it, and by his direction dropped it into the throat of the shaft, where it hung and shook from a great cross-beam laid at the level of the earth. A very stout thick rope was fastened to the handle of the corb, and ran across a pulley hanging from the centre of the beam, and thence out of sight in the nether places.

   • 1863, Henry Mayhew, The Boyhood of Martin Luther:

     I […] carried my corb of fagots home on my back, while my two youngsters had each their bundle on their little shoulders too

   • 1913, Gilbert Murray (translator), Euripides (original), Electra:

     Some bore amain
     The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain

2. (obsolete, architecture) a corbel (ornament in a building).
3. A brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

References

• “corb”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• CBOR, COBR, RBOC

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔrp]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔɾp]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin corvus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós. First attested in the 14th century.

Noun

corb m (plural corbs, feminine corba, feminine plural corbes)

1. crow

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin curvus. Doublet of corbo (“hunchbacked”). First attested in the 14th century.

Adjective

corb (feminine corba, masculine plural corbs, feminine plural corbes)

1. curved

   Antonyms: recte, dret

Derived terms

• corba

Related terms

• corbar
• curvatura
• encorbar

References

• “corb” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading

• “corb”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “corb” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Megleno-Romanian

Alternative forms

• cuărb, cuorb, corbu

Etymology

Inherited from Latin corvus.

Noun

corb m

1. raven

References

• Atasanov, Petar (1990), Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin corvus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós. Compare Aromanian corbu, Albanian korb, Italian corvo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /korb/

Noun

corb m (plural corbi)

1. raven (bird)
   • 1852, Vasile Alecsandri, Novac și corbul, chapter II, line 14-17:

     Un corb negru, corbișor
     Ce zbura încetișor
     Și din aripi tot bătea
     Și cu jale croncănea.
     E-atras de doliul sarcastic
     Ce-l poartă aripile tale!

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2. brown meagre (fish)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	corb	corbul		corbi	corbii
genitive-dative	corb	corbului		corbi	corbilor
vocative	corbule			corbilor

Synonyms

• (bird): cloncan, croncan (popular)

Derived terms

• corb la corb nu scoate ochii
• corb nordic
• corb-albastru
• corb-de-mare
• corb-de-noapte
• corbancă
• corbișor, corbușor
• corbiu
• Corbul
• corbuleț
• negru ca corbul, negru ca pana corbului

Related terms

• corac
• coraciiforme
• coraco-
• coracoid

See also

• cioară
• corvid

References

• “corb”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026