drabina

From Old Polish drab +‎ -ina, cognate to Belarusian драбіны (drabiny) and Ukrainian драби́на (drabýna) (not Serbo-Croatian drȇbīna which is from German Drehbühne). This is possibly from a Proto-Slavic *drabь or *drabъ but possibly also a borrowing.

Else in Balto-Slavic it has been connected to Lithuanian dìrbti (“to work”) (so Brückner) which equals Proto-Germanic *derbaną (“to work”), to Lithuanian drebė́ti (“to quiver”), Russian дря́бы (drjáby, “carriage for sheaves”), Belarusian дра́бы (dráby, “rips”), Czech droby (“giblets”).

• IPA^(key): /draˈbi.na/

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: dra‧bi‧na

drabina f (diminutive drabinka)

1. ladder (climbing tool)

   Synonym: (regional) drabka

   wspinać się po drabinie ― to climb up a ladder

2. ladder (a hierarchy)

• “Treppe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “drabina”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 122
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “drab”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 94

• drabina in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• drabina in Polish dictionaries at PWN