Grab

== English == === Etymology === From Grab, a Singaporean company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments; the company name is from the word grab. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡɹæb/ === Noun === Grab (plural Grabs) (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, informal) A taxi ride booked through the Grab app. == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German grap, from Old High German grap, from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Related to graben (“to dig”). Compare Low German Graf, Graff, Dutch graf, English grave, Danish grav, Icelandic gröf, Serbo-Croatian grȍb (“grave”) and grȏblje (“graveyard, cemetery”), Czech hrob (“grave”), Slovak hrob (“grave”), Polish grób. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡʁaːp/ (standard) IPA(key): /ɡʁap/ (variant in Low German areas; but inflected forms always with a long vowel) Rhymes: -aːp, -ap === Noun === Grab n (strong, genitive Grabes or Grabs, plural Gräber, diminutive Gräbchen n or Gräblein n) grave tomb ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== wie ein Grab schweigen ==== Related terms ==== Grabbeigabe, Grabeskirche, Grabesstille, Grabesritter, Grabhügel, Grabkammer, Grabmal, Grabrede, Grabstätte, Grabstein, Grabtuch Einzelgrab, Ehrengrab, Fürstengrab, Königsgrab, Hügelgrab, Massengrab, Seemannsgrab, Soldatengrab, Urnengrab === Further reading === “Grab” in Duden online “Grab” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Grab”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891 == Polish == === Etymology === From grab (“hornbeam”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡrap/ Rhymes: -ap Syllabification: Grab Homophones: grab, grap === Proper noun === Grab m pers a male surname ==== Declension ==== === Proper noun === Grab f (indeclinable) a female surname