grab

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡɹæb/ Rhymes: -æb === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch grabben or Middle Low German grabben (“to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”), from Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *grabbōn, a secondary form of Proto-Germanic *grabōną (“to gather, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to gather, rake, grab, seize”). Related to archaic German grappen (“to grab”), Danish grabbe (“to grab”), Swedish grabba (“to grab”), Old Norse grápa (“to seize, appropriate”), Middle English grappen (“to feel, grope, grasp, clutch”), Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”). Related also to Sanskrit गृह्णाति (gṛhṇā́ti), गृभ्णाति (gṛbhṇā́ti, “he seizes”), Avestan 𐬔𐬭𐬀𐬠 (grab, “to seize”)), Macedonian грабне (grabne, “to snatch”), Bulgarian грабя (grabja, “to rob, to grab”). ==== Verb ==== grab (third-person singular simple present grabs, present participle grabbing, simple past and past participle grabbed) (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something). To restrain someone; to arrest. (transitive) To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest. (informal) To quickly collect, retrieve, or take. (informal) To consume something quickly. To take the opportunity of. ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== grab (countable and uncountable, plural grabs) (countable) A sudden snatch at something. (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means. (countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven. (countable, media) A sound bite. (obsolete) That which is seized. (firefighting, slang) The rescue of a person from a burning structure. (uncountable) A simple card game. ===== Synonyms ===== catch clutch grasp seize snatch ===== Translations ===== ==== Derived terms ==== === Etymology 2 === From Arabic غُرَاب (ḡurāb) and Hindi ghurb?: crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. ==== Noun ==== grab (plural grabs) A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast. ===== Alternative forms ===== ghorab, ghrab, ghurab, gurab === Further reading === Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “GRAB”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 391. === Anagrams === ARGB, brag, garb == Lower Sorbian == === Etymology === From Proto-Slavic *grabrъ. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ɡrap] === Noun === grab m inan hornbeam (tree of genus Carpinus) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “grab”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008 Starosta, Manfred (1999), “grab”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag == Old High German == === Alternative forms === grap === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Compare Old Saxon graf (Low German Graf, Graff), Dutch graf, Old English græf (English grave), Old Frisian gref (West Frisian grêf), Old Norse grǫf (Danish grav, Icelandic gröf), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰 (graba). === Noun === grab n grave tomb ==== Descendants ==== Middle High German: grapCentral Franconian: Grav, JravHunsrik: GraabLuxembourgish: GrafBavarian: GråbCimbrian: grapEast Central German:Vilamovian: graob, grobEast Franconian:German: GrabRhine Franconian: GrabFrankfurterisch: [krɑːp], (plural) [kʀεːvæ̆]Yiddish: גרוב (grub) == Polish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡrap/ Rhymes: -ap Syllabification: grab Homophones: Grab, grap === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grabrъ. ==== Noun ==== grab m inan (related adjective grabowy) hornbeam (any tree of the genus Carpinus) ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Noun ==== grab f genitive plural of graba === Etymology 3 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== grab second-person singular imperative of grabić === Further reading === grab in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN grab in Polish dictionaries at PWN == Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grabrъ, from Proto-Indo-European *grābʰ-. === Noun === grab m inan (Cyrillic spelling граб) hornbeam ==== Declension ====