graben

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Graben (“ditch”), from the verb graben (“to dig”). === Noun === graben (plural grabens or graben) (geology) An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area. Antonym: horst Coordinate term: fault Hyponym: rift valley 1959, Robert G. Yates, George A. Thompson, Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas, U. S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 312, page 49, The magnitude and shape of the large grabens strongly suggest that, when they formed, material much more mobile than ordinary rocks was present at a depth no greater than a few miles. 1997, Jean-Marie Rouchy, 2: Paleogene Continental Rift System of Western Europe, Georges Busson, B. Charlotte Schreiber (editors), Sedimentary Deposition in Rift and Foreland Basins in France and Spain (Paleogene and Lower Neogene), page 83, Migration of the subsidence axis has been revealed by the detailed sedimentological studies in most of these grabens, particularly in the Bresse basin (Curial 1986; Moretto 1986/1987) and in Manosque-Forcalquier. 2015, C. F. Burgess, et al., Chapter 35: The Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of Lake Tanganyika: A Case Study of Continental Rifting, W. Manspeizer (editor), Triassic-Jurassic Rifting: Continental Breakup and the Origin of the Atlantic Ocean and Passive Margins, Part A, page 866, These distinct zones of strike-slip or scissor faulting which separate adjacent half-grabens were termed interbasinal ridges and hinged highs by Rosendahl et al. (1986). ==== Derived terms ==== half-graben horst and graben ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === graben on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Bergan, banger == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German graben, from Old High German graban, from Proto-West Germanic *graban. Cognate with English grave (“to dig”), Polish grzebać (“to bury”), Czech hřésti (“to bury”). Doublet of gravieren. Compare German Grab (“grave”), Serbo-Croatian and Slovene grob (“grave”), Czech and Slovak hrob (“grave”), Polish grób (“grave”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡʁaːbən/, [ˈɡʁaːbm̩] (Germany) IPA(key): /ˈɡʁaːbɛn/, [ˈɡʁaːbɱ̩] (Austria) Hyphenation: gra‧ben Homophone: Graben Rhymes: -aːbn̩ === Verb === graben (class 6 strong, third-person singular present gräbt, past tense grub, past participle gegraben, past subjunctive grübe, auxiliary haben) (transitive or intransitive) to dig (transitive, intransitive or reflexive, of an animal) to burrow ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== Grab === Further reading === “graben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “graben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “graben” in Duden online “graben” in OpenThesaurus.de == Middle High German == === Etymology === Inherited from Old High German graban, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈɡrabən/ === Verb === graben (class 6 strong, third-person singular present grebet, past tense gruop, past participle gegraben, past subjunctive grüebe, auxiliary hān) (intransitive) to dig (transitive) [with accusative] to dig (transitive) [with accusative] to bury (transitive) [with accusative] to engrave ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== German: graben Luxembourgish: gruewen Yiddish: גראָבן (grobn) === References === Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “graben”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French graben. === Noun === graben n (plural grabene) graben ==== Declension ==== === References === graben in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN == Spanish == === Verb === graben inflection of grabar: third-person plural present subjunctive third-person plural imperative