gropë

See also: grope and Grope

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to scratch, dig”). Akin to Romanian groapă. Compare Old Norse grǫf (“pit, pothole, grave”), grǫftr (“graving, grave, burial, funeral”), Old Church Slavonic гробъ (grobŭ, “grave”) and English grave. Alternatively related to southeastern Montenegrin dialectal form (grȍp) of Serbo-Croatian grȍb.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gro‧pë

Noun

gropë f (plural gropa, definite gropa, definite plural gropat)

1. pit

Declension

Declension of gropë

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gropë	gropa	gropa	gropat
accusative		gropën
dative	grope	gropës	gropave	gropave
ablative			gropash

Derived terms

• gropa-gropa
• gropas
• gropere
• gropëçelë
• gropëqiqër
• gropësinë
• gropësirë
• gropëz
• gropëzohet
• gropëzoj
• gropim
• gropishtë
• gropkë
• gropor
• gropore
• gropos
• groposje
• groposur
• gropshar
• groptë
• gropuar
• zgrof

Related terms

• grabë

Further reading

• “gropë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006