groapă

== Romanian == === Etymology === Probably a substratum word, akin to Albanian gropë, or possibly derived from it. Compare also Aromanian groapã, Bulgarian гропа (gropa). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Old Norse grǫftr (“graving, grave, burial, funeral”), Old Church Slavonic гробъ (grobŭ, “grave”) and English grave. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: groa‧pă === Noun === groapă f (plural gropi) hole (in the ground), pit, grave ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== gropar gropiță îngropa ==== See also ==== gaură bortă (archaic, regional) mormânt