Grab

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæb/

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.

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.")

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.

• 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

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

• wie ein Grab schweigen

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

• “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

From grab (“hornbeam”).

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

Grab m pers

1. a male surname

Grab f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname