verba

See also: Verba, verbā, and верба

Afrikaans

Noun

verba

1. plural of verbum

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin verba, plural of verbum (“word”) reanalysed as a singular.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɾ.bə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛr.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɾ.ba/

Noun

verba f (plural verbes)

1. (in certain fixed expressions) word, speech
2. joke, prank
   • 1969, Jaume Vidal Alcover, Les quatre llunes:

     Deixaren de parlar de l'hort i feien verbes sobre la llegenda del tresor.

     They left off talking about the garden and made jokes about the legend of the treasure.

   • 2015, Sebastià Alzamora, La malcontenta:

     T'has pensat que ho dic de verbes, Salamanca?

     You thought I said it as a joke, Salamanca?

Related terms

• verb
• verbal

Further reading

• “verba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Noun

verba

1. plural of verbum

Esperanto

Etymology

From verbo +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈverba]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -erba
• Hyphenation: ver‧ba

Adjective

verba (accusative singular verban, plural verbaj, accusative plural verbajn)

1. verbal (pertaining to verbs)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈberβa̝/

Noun

verba f (plural verbas)

1. word
2. gab, loquacity

References

• “verba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “verba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “verba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch verba (“verbs”), from Latin verba, verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrba]
• Hyphenation: vèrba

Noun

vèrba (first-person possessive verbaku, second-person possessive verbamu, third-person possessive verbanya)

1. (grammar) verb, a word that indicates an action, event, or state.

   Synonym: kata kerja

Further reading

• “verba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯er.ba/, [ˈu̯ɛrbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈver.ba/, [ˈvɛrbä]

Noun

verba

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of verbum

Latvian

Noun

verba m

1. genitive singular of verbs

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• verbene

Noun

verba n pl

1. definite plural of verb

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

verba n pl

1. definite plural of verb

Portuguese

Noun

verba f (plural verbas)

1. budget (amount of money set aside for a project)

   Synonym: orçamento

Spanish

Noun

verba f (plural verbas)

1. loquacity; gift of the gab

Further reading

• “verba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014