heben
English
Noun
heben (uncountable)
- (obsolete) ebony
- Edmund Spenser, The First Booke of The Faerie Qveene
- Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue / That glorious fire it kindled in his hart / Lay now thy deadly Heben bow apart / And with thy mother milde come to mine ayde.
- Edmund Spenser, The First Booke of The Faerie Qveene
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Etymology
From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German heffen, heven, hevan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyé-, from the root *keh₂p- (“to seize”). Compare Dutch heffen, English heave, Danish hæve.
Pronunciation
Verb
- (transitive) to lift; to raise
- (transitive) to heave; to hoist
- (reflexive) to rise; to lift
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Further reading
- “heben” in Duden online
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