grava

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɡɾa.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈɡɾa.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈɡɾa.va]

From Old French grave (“sandbank”).

grava f (plural graves)

1. gravel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

grava

1. inflection of gravar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “grava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “grava”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “grava” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “grava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French, Italian and English grave, ultimately from Latin gravis. Compare German gravitätisch.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrava]
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• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: gra‧va

grava (accusative singular gravan, plural gravaj, accusative plural gravajn)

1. important
   • 2000, Wolfgang Kirschstein, “Tolstoj instigas ankoraŭ hodiaŭ”, in La Ondo de Esperanto‎, volume 11, number 73, archived from the original on 11 May 2013:

     Resurekto kaj pasko estas la plej gravaj okazintaĵoj en la ortodoksa kredo, sed ĉe Tolstoj ne temas pri tiu resurekto aŭ iu transmonda miraklo.

     The Resurrection and Easter are the most important events in the orthodox belief, but Tolstoy's work isn't about that resurrection or any otherworldly miracle.

2. serious, grave
   • 1912, E. Ĉefeĉ, "Pluaj argumentoj por pruvi, ke la teorio: "La radikoj en Esperanto havas gramatikan karakteron" kontraustaras la intencojn de la fundamento":

     Grava danĝero por la estonteco de nia lingvo kuŝas, laŭ mia opinio, en la akcepto de tiu propono.

     A serious danger for the future of our language lies, in my opinion, in the acceptance of that proposal.

• malgrava (“unimportant, trivial”)

• gravaĵo (“something important”)
• grave (“importantly”)
• graveco (“importance”)
• gravi (“to be important”)
• gravulo (“important person, VIP”)
• ne gravas (“it’s not important; it doesn't matter”)

From Old Norse grafa (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

grava (third person singular past indicative gróv, third person plural past indicative gróvu, supine grivið)

1. to dig

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grava

1. third-person singular past historic of graver

grava

1. heavy, weighty

• pezoza

• lejera

grava

1. inflection of gravare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

gravā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of gravō

• grava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• graven

grava m or f

1. definite feminine singular of grav

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑːʋɑ/

grava f

1. definite singular of grav

From Old Norse grafa, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

• grave (e infinitive)

• IPA^(key): /²ɡrɑːʋɑ/

grava (present tense grev, past tense grov, past participle grave, passive infinitive gravast, present participle gravande, imperative grav)

1. dig

   Kor djupt har du tenkt å grava?

   How deep do you intend to dig?

• “grava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• græva

From Old Norse grafa, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

grava

1. to dig
2. to bury

• Swedish: grava, gräva

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: gra‧va

grava

1. inflection of gravar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French graver.

a grava (third-person singular present gravează, past participle gravat) 1st conj.

1. to engrave

• gravare
• gravat
• gravor
• gravură

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaba/ [ˈɡɾa.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: gra‧va

Borrowed from Catalan grava (“gravel”).

grava f (plural gravas)

1. gravel

   Synonym: gravilla

• → Bikol Central: graba
• → Cebuano: graba
• → Hiligaynon: grabas
• → Tagalog: graba

grava

1. inflection of gravar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “grava”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Formed from grav (“grave”), referring to burying fish in the ground.

grava (present gravar, preterite gravade, supine gravat, imperative grava)

1. (cooking) to dry-cure with a mix of salt, sugar, and spices (commonly salmon, herring, or common whitefish, but also used for red meat)

• gravlax

• gravning

grava

1. inflection of grav:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• grava in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• grava in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• grava in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)