grape

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: grāp, IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪp/ Rhymes: -eɪp === Etymology 1 === From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Displaced native Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp. ==== Noun ==== grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes) (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera. (countable, uncountable) Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine. (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible. (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. (uncountable) Clipping of grapeshot. (pathology) A mangy tumour on a horse's leg. (US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A person's head. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:head ===== Hyponyms ===== (plants of genus Vitis): (plants of other genera): ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape) Containing grapes or having a grape flavor. Of a dark purplish red colour. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped) To pick grapes. Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance. (Northern UK) To grope. (Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom). (Can we add an example for this sense?) === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes) (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape. Synonym: 🍇 ===== Related terms ===== ==== Verb ==== grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped) (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape. Synonym: 🍇 === Anagrams === gaper, pager, parge == Danish == === Etymology === Clipping of grapefrugt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡrɛjb/, [ɡ̊ʁɛjb̥], [ɡ̊ɹɛjb̥] === Noun === grape c (singular definite grapen, plural indefinite graper) grapefruit Synonym: grapefrugt ==== Inflection ==== == Finnish == === Etymology === Borrowed from English grape. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡrei̯p/, [ˈɡre̞i̯p] Rhymes: -eip === Noun === grape (archaic) synonym of greippi (“grapefruit”) ==== Declension ==== == Romanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɡrape] === Noun === grape f pl inflection of grapă: indefinite plural indefinite genitive/dative singular == Spanish == === Verb === grape inflection of grapar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative == Swedish == === Etymology === Clipping of grapefrukt. === Noun === grape c grapefruit Synonym: grapefrukt