Grab

See also: grab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæb/

Proper noun

Grab

1. A Singaporean company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments.
2. The electronic mobile app of the same name that provides these services.

Noun

Grab (plural Grabs)

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, informal) A taxi ride booked through the Grab app.

   I will take a Grab back home. ("I will book a taxi ride from Grab to return home.")

German

Etymology

From Middle High German grap, from Old High German grap, from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Related to graben (“to dig”).

Compare Low German Graf, Graff, Dutch graf, English grave, Danish grav, Icelandic gröf, Serbo-Croatian grȍb (“grave”) and grȏblje (“graveyard, cemetery”), Czech hrob (“grave”), Slovak hrob (“grave”), Polish grób.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁaːp/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ɡʁap/ (variant in Low German areas; but inflected forms always with a long vowel)

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• Rhymes: -aːp, -ap

Noun

Grab n (strong, genitive Grabes or Grabs, plural Gräber, diminutive Gräbchen n or Gräblein n)

1. grave
   • 1844, Heinrich Heine, “Tragödie III”, in Neue Gedichte:

     Auf ihrem Grab da steht eine Linde, / drin pfeifen die Vögel und Abendwinde, / und drunter sitzt, auf dem grünen Platz, / der Müllersknecht mit seinem Schatz.

     Upon your grave there stands a linden wherein whistle the fowls and evening-wind, and thereunder sits upon the green square the miller's servant with his care.

2. tomb

Declension

Declension of Grab [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Grab	die	Gräber
genitive	eines	des	Grabes, Grabs	der	Gräber
dative	einem	dem	Grab, Grabe1	den	Gräbern
accusative	ein	das	Grab	die	Gräber

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• wie ein Grab schweigen

Related terms

• Grabbeigabe, Grabeskirche, Grabesstille, Grabesritter, Grabhügel, Grabkammer, Grabmal, Grabrede, Grabstätte, Grabstein, Grabtuch
• Einzelgrab, Ehrengrab, Fürstengrab, Königsgrab, Hügelgrab, Massengrab, Seemannsgrab, Soldatengrab, Urnengrab

Further reading

• “Grab” in Duden online
• “Grab” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Grab”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Polish

Etymology

From grab (“hornbeam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrap/
• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: Grab
• Homophones: grab, grap

Proper noun

Grab m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Grab

	singular	plural
nominative	Grab	Grabowie
genitive	Graba	Grabów
dative	Grabowi	Grabom
accusative	Graba	Grabów
instrumental	Grabem	Grabami
locative	Grabie	Grabach
vocative	Grabie	Grabowie

Proper noun

Grab f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname