kerb

English

Alternative forms

• curb (US and Canada)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɝb/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɜːb/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
• Homophone: curb

Noun

kerb (plural kerbs)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones.
2. A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.

Derived terms

• kerb weight
• kerby

Translations

edge between pavement and roadway

• Bulgarian: бордю́р (bg) m (bordjúr)
• Catalan: vorada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 路緣 (zh), 路缘 (zh) (lùyuán)

• Czech: obrubník m
• Danish: kantsten c
• Dutch: stoeprand (nl), borduur (nl)
• Faroese: kantsteinur m
• Finnish: reunakiveys (fi), jalkakäytävän reuna
• French: bordure (fr) f, bordure du trottoir f
• Galician: bordo (gl) m
• German: Bordstein (de) m, Randstein (de) m
• Irish: colbha m

• Italian: orlo del marciapiede m
• Japanese: 縁石 (えんせき, enseki, ふちいし, fuchiishi, へりいし, heriishi)
• Maori: tapa rori
• Persian: جدول‎‎ (fa) (jadval)
• Polish: krawężnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: guia (pt) f, meio-fio (pt) m, lancil (pt) m
• Russian: бордю́р (ru) m (bordjúr), поре́брик (ru) m (porébrik) (regional, rare)
• Scottish Gaelic: oir chabhsair f
• Serbo-Croatian: rubnik (sh), ivičnjak (sh) m
• Spanish: bordillo (es) m
• Swedish: trottoarkant (sv) c
• Welsh: ymyl palmant m, ymyl pafin m

Verb

kerb (third-person singular simple present kerbs, present participle kerbing, simple past and past participle kerbed)

1. (Britain, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.

Anagrams

• Berk, berk, brek

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Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɾb/

Noun

kerb ?

1. sadness