babrať
Appearance
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babrati.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]babrať impf
- (colloquial, transitive) to dirty, to soil
- Synonym: špiniť
- (colloquial, transitive) to touch
- Synonym: chytať
- (reflexive) to dabble (to rummage in dirty in a sticky liquid) [with v čom (+ locative) ‘in what’]
- (reflexive) to dawdle (to do some job for a long time and often incorrectly) [with v čom (+ locative) or s čím (+ instrumental) ‘with what’]
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of babrať (imperfective; class IV, pattern česať)
References
[edit]- ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “babrať”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 57
Further reading
[edit]- “babrať”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024