grapa

See also: grapà, grapá, grapă, Grapă, gràpa, grápa, and grăpa

Aragonese

Etymology

From Frankish *krappō (“hook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾapa/
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: gra‧pa

Noun

grapa f

1. claw (of an animal)
2. staple (fastener)

Derived terms

• grapar

Further reading

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Frankish *krappō (“hook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɾa.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡɾa.pa]

Noun

grapa f (plural grapes)

1. claw (of an animal)
2. staple (fastener)

Derived terms

• de grapes / de quatre grapes
• engrapar
• grapar
• grapat

Descendants

• → Spanish: grapa

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Verb

grapa

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

Polish

Alternative forms

• gropa (Kuyavia)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.pa/
  • (Northern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.pa/
  • (Eastern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.pa/
• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.pa/

Noun

grapa f (diminutive grapka)

1. (Kuyavia) Synonym of naczynie
2. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Far Masovian) iron pot with three legs

See also

• drybinek

Further reading

• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “grapa”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “grapa”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 34
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “grapa”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 109

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• graspa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.pɐ/

• Hyphenation: gra‧pa

Noun

grapa f (plural grapas)

1. grappa (Italian grape-based spirit)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrapa]

Noun

grapa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of grapă

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡràːpa/

Noun

grápa f

1. ditch

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	grápa
gen. sing.	grápe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	grápa	grápi	grápe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	grápe	gráp	gráp
dative (dajȃlnik)	grápi	grápama	grápam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	grápo	grápi	grápe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	grápi	grápah	grápah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	grápo	grápama	grápami

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾapa/ [ˈɡɾa.pa]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: gra‧pa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Catalan grapa, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”). Compare English grape.

Alternative forms

• grampa (nonstandard)

Noun

grapa f (plural grapas)

1. staple (fastener)
2. clamp
3. (medicine) stitch

Derived terms

• engrapar
• grapar

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

grapa

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

Further reading

• “grapa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• pagar