grabë

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to scratch, dig”). Akin to Old High German grab (“grave”), Old Saxon graf, Proto-Slavic *grobъ (“grave”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrab(ə)/
  • Hyphenation: gra‧bë (or) grabë

Noun

grabë f (plural graba, definite graba, definite plural grabat)

  1. erosion, hollowing out

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “grabë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 136
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