grape

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: grāp (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪp/ (Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɡɹæɪp/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɡɹep/ Rhymes: -eɪp Hyphenation: grape === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced 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. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (Hong Kong) To envy (from sour grapes). === Etymology 2 === From rape, influenced by grape. ==== 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: 🍇 === Further reading === “grape”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === 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 === Unadapted borrowing from English grape. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡrei̯p/, [ˈɡre̞i̯p] Rhymes: -eip Syllabification(key): grape Hyphenation(key): grape === Noun === grape (archaic) synonym of greippi (“grapefruit”) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “grape”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 14 May 2026 == 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