English Online Dictionary. What means grab? What does grab mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɹæb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch grabben (“to grab”) or Middle Low German grabben (“to snap”), from Old Dutch or Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *graban, from Proto-Germanic *grab-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-.
See also Sanskrit गृह्णाति (gṛhṇā́ti), गृभ्णाति (gṛbhṇā́ti, “he seizes”), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬡 (garəβ, “to seize”)). Cognate with Danish grabbe (“to grab”), Swedish grabba (“to grab”), Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”), Middle English grappen (“to feel with the hands; grope”), 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.
- How does that idea grab you?
- (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.
- (uncountable) A simple card game.
Synonyms
- catch
- clutch
- grasp
- seize
- snatch
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
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: grap
- Central Franconian: Grav, Jrav
- Hunsrik: Graab
- Luxembourgish: Graf
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: grap
- East Central German:
- Vilamovian: graob, grob
- East Franconian:
- German: Grab
- Rhine Franconian: Grab
- Frankfurterisch: [krɑːp], (plural) [kʀεːvæ̆]
- Yiddish: גרוב (grub)
- Central Franconian: Grav, Jrav
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡrap/
- 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 (Cyrillic spelling граб)
- hornbeam