groba

Attested as (illa) grova in Medieval Latin local documents. From Suevic or Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “dugout, hole, cave”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“cavity, pit”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰróbʰ-, o-grade form of *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, bury”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾɔβɐ]

groba f (plural grobas)

1. ravine, defile

   Synonym: quenlla

2. groove; long and deep depression in the terrain (frequently applied to old Roman open air mines and Iron Age hill-fort ditches)

   Synonyms: cárcava, cavorco

• Groba
• Grobia
• grobo

• graba

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “groua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “groba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “groba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “groba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

grōba

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰

Borrowed from Russian гроб (grob).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrobɑ/, [ˈɡro̞bɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrobɑ/, [ˈkro̞b̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -obɑ
• Hyphenation: gro‧ba

groba

1. Synonym of ruumeenpuut (“coffin”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 207
• Arvo Laanest (1978) Isuri keele ajalooline foneetika ja morfoloogia [The historical phonology and morphology of the Ingrian language]‎^[2], Tallinn, page 27

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔba/

groba

1. inflection of grob:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

From Middle High German grāve, from Old High German grāfio. Cognate with Czech hrabě.

groba m anim

1. (Nobility) count

• grobinstwo
• grobina

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “groba”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag