curb

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• General-American: /kɝb/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɜːb/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)b
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• homophone: kerb
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• homophone: kirb
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• CMU ARPABET: K ER1 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French courbe (“curve, curved object”), from Latin curvus (“bent, crooked, curved”). Doublet of curve.

121 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: бардзю́р (bardzjúr) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Bulgarian: бордю́р (bordjúr) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Catalan: vorada — concrete along the edge of a road
• Catalan: rastell — concrete along the edge of a road
• Chinese Mandarin: 路緣 /路缘 (lùyuán) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Czech: obrubník — concrete along the edge of a road
• Danish: kantsten — concrete along the edge of a road
• Dutch: stoeprand — concrete along the edge of a road
• Dutch: borduur — concrete along the edge of a road
• Faroese: kantsteinur — concrete along the edge of a road
• Finnish: reunakiveys — concrete along the edge of a road
• Finnish: jalkakäytävän reuna — concrete along the edge of a road
• Finnish: reunakivi — concrete along the edge of a road
• French: bordure — concrete along the edge of a road
• French: bordure du trottoir — concrete along the edge of a road
• Galician: bordo — concrete along the edge of a road
• Georgian: ბორდიური (bordiuri) — concrete along the edge of a road
• German: Bordstein — concrete along the edge of a road
• German: Randstein — concrete along the edge of a road
• German: Bordkante — concrete along the edge of a road
• German: Kantstein — concrete along the edge of a road
• German: Kante — concrete along the edge of a road
• German: Steinrand — concrete along the edge of a road
• Hungarian: járdaszegély — concrete along the edge of a road
• Indonesian: kanstin — concrete along the edge of a road
• Indonesian: kereb — concrete along the edge of a road
• Irish: colbha — concrete along the edge of a road
• Italian: orlo del marciapiede — concrete along the edge of a road
• Italian: cordolo — concrete along the edge of a road
• Japanese: 縁石 — concrete along the edge of a road
• Korean: 연석 (yeonseok) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Korean: 갓돌 (gatdol) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Latin: crepīdō — concrete along the edge of a road
• Macedonian: раб (rab) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Malay: bebendul — concrete along the edge of a road
• Māori: tapa rori — concrete along the edge of a road
• Māori: paeara — concrete along the edge of a road
• Persian: جدول (jadval) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Polish: krawężnik — concrete along the edge of a road
• Portuguese: meio-fio — concrete along the edge of a road
• Portuguese: lancil — concrete along the edge of a road
• Portuguese: guia — concrete along the edge of a road
• Romanian: bordură — concrete along the edge of a road
• Russian: бордю́р (bordjúr) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Russian: поре́брик (porébrik) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Scottish Gaelic: oir chabhsair — concrete along the edge of a road
• Serbo-Croatian: rubnik — concrete along the edge of a road
• Serbo-Croatian: ivičnjak — concrete along the edge of a road
• Slovak: obrubník — concrete along the edge of a road
• Slovene: robnik — concrete along the edge of a road
• Spanish: bordillo — concrete along the edge of a road
• Spanish: sardinel — concrete along the edge of a road
• Swedish: trottoarkant — concrete along the edge of a road
• Ukrainian: бордю́р (bordjúr) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Ukrainian: бро́вка (bróvka) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Ukrainian: брі́вка (brívka) — concrete along the edge of a road
• Welsh: ymyl palmant — concrete along the edge of a road
• Welsh: ymyl pafin — concrete along the edge of a road
• Bulgarian: обузда́ване (obuzdávane) — something that checks or restrains
• Bulgarian: спира́чка (spiráčka) — something that checks or restrains
• Czech: omezení — something that checks or restrains
• Dutch: kering — something that checks or restrains
• Dutch: hindernis — something that checks or restrains
• Finnish: este — something that checks or restrains
• Finnish: rajoitin — something that checks or restrains
• Finnish: pidike — something that checks or restrains
• German: Beschränkung — something that checks or restrains
• German: Zurückhaltung — something that checks or restrains
• German: Zwang — something that checks or restrains
• German: Einschränkung — something that checks or restrains
• German: Mäßigung — something that checks or restrains
• German: Beherrschung — something that checks or restrains
• German: Drosselung — something that checks or restrains
• German: Einhalt — something that checks or restrains
• German: Dämpfung — something that checks or restrains
• Persian: مهار (mahâr) — something that checks or restrains
• Portuguese: freio — something that checks or restrains
• Spanish: freno — something that checks or restrains
• Spanish: restricción — something that checks or restrains
• Czech: obrubník — raised margin along the edge
• Finnish: reunus — raised margin along the edge
• Finnish: reuna — raised margin along the edge
• Finnish: laita — raised margin along the edge
• German: Falz — raised margin along the edge
• German: Aufkantung — raised margin along the edge
• German: Flansch — raised margin along the edge
• German: Rippe — raised margin along the edge
• German: Grat — raised margin along the edge
• Slovak: obruba — raised margin along the edge
• Slovak: obrubník — raised margin along the edge
• Slovak: lem — raised margin along the edge
• Slovak: lemovanie — raised margin along the edge
• Slovak: olemovanie — raised margin along the edge
• Ottoman Turkish: بلازك (bilâzik) — raised margin along the edge
• Bulgarian: юзда́ (juzdá) — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• Czech: uzda — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• Czech: udidlo — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• German: Kandare — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• German: Zügel — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• German: Hasenhacke — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• Persian: افسار (afsâr) — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• Scottish Gaelic: srian — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• Slovak: uzda — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• Welsh: genffrwyn — a riding or driving bit for a horse
• Bulgarian: обуздавам (obuzdavam) — to check, restrain, control
• Finnish: pitää kurissa — to check, restrain, control
• Finnish: hillitä — to check, restrain, control
• Finnish: pitää aisoissa — to check, restrain, control
• Galician: restrinxir — to check, restrain, control
• Galician: limitar — to check, restrain, control
• Ancient Greek: ἐρύκω (erúkō) — to check, restrain, control
• Latin: reprimō — to check, restrain, control
• Latin: compescō — to check, restrain, control
• Latin: refrēnō — to check, restrain, control
• Russian: обуздать (obuzdatʹ) — to check, restrain, control
• Russian: сдержать (sderžatʹ) — to check, restrain, control
• Finnish: reunustaa — to furnish with a curb
• Finnish: ajaa reunakiveykseen — to force to "bite the curb"
• Finnish: ajaa reunakiveykseen — to damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb
• Finnish: taivuttaa — to bend or curve
• Finnish: taivuttaa — to crouch; cringe