grap

From Middle High German grap, from Old High German grap, from Proto-Germanic *grabą (“grave”). Cognate with German Grab, English grave.

grap n (plural gréebar)

1. (Sette Comuni) grave, tomb

   De gréebar hobüutent d'ögnarn tòoten. ― Tombs guard our dead.

• graaban
• graabo

• “grap” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Related to grijpen. First attested in the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɑp/

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• Hyphenation: grap
• Rhymes: -ɑp

grap f (plural grappen, diminutive grapje n)

1. joke

   Synonyms: grol, fattoe, mop

• grapjas
• grappen
• grappenmaakster
• grappenmaker
• grappig

• fattoe
• grol

Inherited from Old High German grap

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈɡrap/

grap n (genitive grabes, plural grap or greber)

1. grave
   • 12-13th century. In: Tristan von Meister Gotfrit von Straszburg mit der Fortsetzung des Meisters Ulrich von Turheim in zwey Abtheilungen herausgegeben von E. von Groote, Berlin, 1821, page 387:

     Ist ez, als i'z vernomen habe,
     Ich wene, so waren der grabe zwei.

• 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)

From Proto-West Germanic *graipu, from Proto-Germanic *graipō, related to *grīpaną (“to grasp, grab”).

Cognate with Middle Low German grēpe, Middle Dutch grepe (Dutch greep), Old High German greifa, Old Norse greip (Swedish grep).

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑːp/

grāp f

1. grip, grasp, clutches

• *grǣpe

• Middle English: grop (attested in Middle English gropnail)
  • English: grope
  • Scots: graip
    • → Irish: graeipe, graeip, grápa, grápán
    • → Scottish Gaelic: gràpa

grap n

1. Alternative form of grab

• 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)