Grab

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)

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.
tomb

Declension of Grab [neuter, strong]

More information singular, plural ...

¹Now rare, see notes.

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

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