verba
Afrikaans
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
verba f (plural verbes)
- (in certain fixed expressions) word, speech
- joke, prank
- 1969, Jaume Vidal Alcover, Les quatre llunes:
- Deixaren de parlar de l'hort i feien verbes sobre la llegenda del tresor.
- They left off talking about the garden and made jokes about the legend of the treasure.
- 2015, Sebastià Alzamora, La malcontenta:
- T'has pensat que ho dic de verbes, Salamanca?
- You thought I said it as a joke, Salamanca?
Further reading
- “verba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈverba]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -erba
- Hyphenation: ver‧ba
Galician
Etymology
From Latin verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈberβa̝/
References
- “verba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “verba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “verba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch verba (“verbs”), from Latin verba, verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvɛrba]
- Hyphenation: vèrba
Noun
vèrba (first-person possessive verbaku, second-person possessive verbamu, third-person possessive verbanya)
- (grammar) verb, a word that indicates an action, event, or state.
- Synonym: kata kerja
Further reading
- “verba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯er.ba/, [ˈu̯ɛrbä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈver.ba/, [ˈvɛrbä]
Latvian
Norwegian Nynorsk
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvɛʁ.bɐ/ [ˈvɛɦ.bɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈvɛɾ.bɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈvɛʁ.bɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvɛɻ.ba/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈvɛɾ.bɐ/ [ˈvɛɾ.βɐ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɾ.bɐ/ [ˈbɛɾ.βɐ]
- Hyphenation: ver‧ba
Spanish
Further reading
- “verba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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