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From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.

* As an English surname, from Middle English greyve (“steward”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Grove. * As a French surname, from the noun gravier (“gravel”). * As a north German surname, variant of Graf; also from the Low German noun Graf (“ditch, grave”) (see grave).

From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrebh- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.

Inherited from Middle English greyve. Doublet of graaf (borrowed from the Dutch cognate graaf (“count, earl”)) and graf (borrowed from the German cognate Graf (“count, earl”)).

From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrebh- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Danish grave (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”), Icelandic grafa (“to dig”).

339 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сериозен (seriozen) — having a sense of seriousness
• Catalan: seriós — having a sense of seriousness
• Chinese Mandarin: 嚴重 /严重 (yánzhòng) — having a sense of seriousness
• Chinese Mandarin: 嚴肅 /严肃 (yánsù) — having a sense of seriousness
• Chinese Mandarin: 沉重 (chénzhòng) — having a sense of seriousness
• Czech: vážný — having a sense of seriousness
• Danish: alvorlig — having a sense of seriousness
• Finnish: vakava — having a sense of seriousness
• French: grave — having a sense of seriousness
• German: gewichtig — having a sense of seriousness
• German: gemessen — having a sense of seriousness
• German: gravitätisch — having a sense of seriousness
• Greek: βαρύς (varýs) — having a sense of seriousness
• Italian: solenne — having a sense of seriousness
• Italian: grave — having a sense of seriousness
• Japanese: 厳粛 (genshuku) — having a sense of seriousness
• Latin: sērius — having a sense of seriousness
• Plautdietsch: schlemm — having a sense of seriousness
• Polish: poważny — having a sense of seriousness
• Romanian: grav — having a sense of seriousness
• Russian: серьёзный (serʹjóznyj) — having a sense of seriousness
• Serbo-Croatian: ozbiljan — having a sense of seriousness
• Spanish: serio — having a sense of seriousness
• Spanish: seco — having a sense of seriousness
• Spanish: solemne — having a sense of seriousness
• Spanish: reservado — having a sense of seriousness
• Spanish: sombrío — having a sense of seriousness
• Tagalog: malma — having a sense of seriousness
• Turkish: ciddi — having a sense of seriousness
• Turkish: vahim — having a sense of seriousness
• Ottoman Turkish: دولك (dölek) — having a sense of seriousness
• Ottoman Turkish: آغر (ağır) — having a sense of seriousness
• Catalan: greu — low in pitch, tone
• Chinese Mandarin: 低音 (dīyīn) — low in pitch, tone
• Chinese Mandarin: 低頻 /低频 — low in pitch, tone
• Danish: dunkel — low in pitch, tone
• Finnish: matala — low in pitch, tone
• German: dumpf — low in pitch, tone
• German: dunkel — low in pitch, tone
• Italian: grave — low in pitch, tone
• Māori: mārū — low in pitch, tone
• Romanian: grav — low in pitch, tone
• Russian: ни́зкий (nízkij) — low in pitch, tone
• Serbo-Croatian: dubokoglasni — low in pitch, tone
• Spanish: grave — low in pitch, tone
• Spanish: bajo — low in pitch, tone
• Turkish: vakarlı — low in pitch, tone
• Turkish: ağırbaşlı — low in pitch, tone
• Bulgarian: тежък (težǎk) — serious in a negative sense
• Bulgarian: сериозен (seriozen) — serious in a negative sense
• Catalan: greu — serious in a negative sense
• Czech: závažný — serious in a negative sense
• Danish: frygtindgydende — serious in a negative sense
• Finnish: vakava — serious in a negative sense
• French: grave — serious in a negative sense
• German: respektgebietend — serious in a negative sense
• German: furchtgebietend — serious in a negative sense
• Greek: βαρύς (varýs) — serious in a negative sense
• Italian: opprimente — serious in a negative sense
• Polish: poważny — serious in a negative sense
• Russian: тяжёлый (tjažólyj) — serious in a negative sense
• Russian: серьёзный (serʹjóznyj) — serious in a negative sense
• Serbo-Croatian: preozbiljan — serious in a negative sense
• Spanish: grave — serious in a negative sense
• Spanish: apremiante — serious in a negative sense
• Turkish: vahim — serious in a negative sense
• Abkhaz: адамра (adamra) — excavation for burial
• Acehnese: kubu — excavation for burial
• Acehnese: jeurat — excavation for burial
• Afrikaans: graf — excavation for burial
• Albanian: varr — excavation for burial
• Amharic: መቃብር (mäḳabr) — excavation for burial
• Arabic: قَبْر (qabr) — excavation for burial
• Arabic: ضَرِيح (ḍarīḥ) — excavation for burial
• Arabic: قبر (gabir) — excavation for burial
• Arabic: قبر (gabur) — excavation for burial
• Arabic: قبر (qbar) — excavation for burial
• Aramaic: ܩܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ (qaḇrāʾ) — excavation for burial
• Turoyo: ܩܰܘܪܳܐ (qawro) — excavation for burial
• Armenian: գերեզման (gerezman) — excavation for burial
• Aromanian: murmintu — excavation for burial
• Aromanian: groapã — excavation for burial
• Assamese: কবৰ (kobor) — excavation for burial
• Asturian: sepultura — excavation for burial
• Asturian: cabuercu — excavation for burial
• Asturian: cagüercu — excavation for burial
• Asturian: fuoca (Tox) — excavation for burial
• Asturian: güesa (Pravia) — excavation for burial
• Asturian: fuosa (Tox) — excavation for burial
• Asturian: guosa (Tox) — excavation for burial
• Asturian: furaca (Palacios del Sil) — excavation for burial
• Asturian: mortera — excavation for burial
• Aukan: geebi — excavation for burial
• Azerbaijani: məzar — excavation for burial
• Azerbaijani: qəbir — excavation for burial
• Bangi: lilita — excavation for burial
• Bashkir: ҡәбер (qəber) — excavation for burial
• Bashkir: гүр (gür) — excavation for burial
• Belarusian: магі́ла (mahíla) — excavation for burial
• Belarusian: гроб (hrob) — excavation for burial
• Bengali: কবর (kobor) — excavation for burial
• Bengali: সমাধি (śomadhi) — excavation for burial
• Breton: bez — excavation for burial
• Bulgarian: гроб (grob) — excavation for burial
• Burmese: သင်္ချိုင်း (sanghkyuing:) — excavation for burial
• Buryat: хүүр (xüür) — excavation for burial
• Catalan: sepulcre — excavation for burial
• Catalan: tomba — excavation for burial
• Catalan: sepultura — excavation for burial
• Chinese Cantonese: 墳墓 /坟墓 (fan4 mou6) — excavation for burial
• Chinese: фын (fɨn) — excavation for burial
• Chinese: фынкын (fɨnkɨn) — excavation for burial
• Eastern Min Chinese: 墳墓 /坟墓 (hùng-muó) — excavation for burial
• Hakka Chinese: 墳墓 /坟墓 (fùn-mu) — excavation for burial
• Chinese: 墳墓 /坟墓 (phûn-bōng / phûn-bō͘) — excavation for burial
• Chinese Mandarin: 墳墓 /坟墓 (fénmù) — excavation for burial
• Wu Chinese: 墳墓 /坟墓 (6ven-mu) — excavation for burial
• East Circassian: кхъэ (qꭓɛ) — excavation for burial
• West Circassian: хъэ (ꭓɛ) — excavation for burial
• West Circassian: бэны (bɛnə) — excavation for burial
• Coptic: ⲃⲏ (bē) — excavation for burial
• Cornish: bedh — excavation for burial
• Czech: hrob — excavation for burial
• Danish: grav — excavation for burial
• Dutch: graf — excavation for burial
• Elfdalian: grav — excavation for burial
• Esperanto: tombo — excavation for burial
• Estonian: haud — excavation for burial
• Faroese: grøv — excavation for burial
• Finnish: hauta — excavation for burial
• French: tombe — excavation for burial
• West-Frisian: grêf — excavation for burial
• Galician: sepultura — excavation for burial
• Galician: cova — excavation for burial
• Galician: burata — excavation for burial
• Georgian: საფლავი (saplavi) — excavation for burial
• Georgian: სამარე (samare) — excavation for burial
• German: Grab — excavation for burial
• Greek: τάφος (táfos) — excavation for burial
• Ancient Greek: τάφος (táphos) — excavation for burial
• Greenlandic: iliveq — excavation for burial
• Hebrew: קֶבֶר (kéver) — excavation for burial
• Hindi: क़ब्र (qabra) — excavation for burial
• Hindi: समाधि (samādhi) — excavation for burial
• Hindi: गोर (gor) — excavation for burial
• Hungarian: sír — excavation for burial
• Icelandic: gröf — excavation for burial
• Indonesian: kubur — excavation for burial
• Irish: uaigh — excavation for burial
• Italian: fossa — excavation for burial
• Italian: tomba — excavation for burial
• Japanese: 墓 (haka) — excavation for burial
• Karachay-Balkar: къабыр (qabır) — excavation for burial
• Karachay-Balkar: кёр (kör) — excavation for burial
• Kazakh: мазар (mazar) — excavation for burial
• Kazakh: қабыр (qabyr) — excavation for burial
• Kazakh: көр (kör) — excavation for burial
• Khinalug: зийарт (zijart) — excavation for burial
• Khmer: ផ្នូរ (phnou) — excavation for burial
• Komi-Permyak: шойгу (šojgu) — excavation for burial
• Komi-Zyrian: гу (gu) — excavation for burial
• Korean: 무덤 (mudeom) — excavation for burial
• Korean: 묘 (myo) — excavation for burial
• Central Kurdish: قەبر (qebir) — excavation for burial
• Central Kurdish: گۆڕ (gorr) — excavation for burial
• Northern Kurdish: gorr — excavation for burial
• Northern Kurdish: merzel — excavation for burial
• Northern Kurdish: tirb — excavation for burial
• Northern Kurdish: qebir — excavation for burial
• Northern Kurdish: mezar — excavation for burial
• Northern Kurdish: ziyaret — excavation for burial
• Kyrgyz: көр (kör) — excavation for burial
• Kyrgyz: мүрзө (mürzö) — excavation for burial
• Kyrgyz: бейит (beyit) — excavation for burial
• Kyrgyz: мүрдө (mürdö) — excavation for burial
• Ladino: arón — excavation for burial
• Ladino: ארון — excavation for burial
• Lao: ຊຸມຜີ (sum phī) — excavation for burial
• Lao: ຂຸມຝັງສົບ (khum fang sop) — excavation for burial
• Lao: ຂຸມເຮ່ວ (khum h) — excavation for burial
• Latgalian: kops — excavation for burial
• Latin: sepulcrum — excavation for burial
• Latvian: kaps — excavation for burial
• Lingala: lilita — excavation for burial
• Lithuanian: kapas — excavation for burial
• Lower Tanana: tth'enh k'at — excavation for burial
• Luxembourgish: Graf — excavation for burial
• Macedonian: гроб (grob) — excavation for burial
• Malay: pusara — excavation for burial
• Malay: kubur — excavation for burial
• Maltese: qabar — excavation for burial
• Manx: oaie — excavation for burial
• Maung: yurk — excavation for burial
• Megleno-Romanian: murmint — excavation for burial
• Mongolian: булш (bulš) — excavation for burial
• Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠯᠠᠰᠢ (bulasi) — excavation for burial
• Navajo: jishchááʼ — excavation for burial
• Norman: tombe — excavation for burial
• Norman: fôsse — excavation for burial
• Norwegian Bokmål: grav — excavation for burial
• Norwegian Nynorsk: grav — excavation for burial
• Occitan: sepulcre — excavation for burial
• Occitan: tomba — excavation for burial
• Occitan: sepultura — excavation for burial
• Church Slavic: гробъ (grobŭ) — excavation for burial
• Church Slavic: могꙑла (mogyla) — excavation for burial
• Old East Slavic: гробъ (grobŭ) — excavation for burial
• Old English: byrġen — excavation for burial
• Old English: græf — excavation for burial
• Oromo: awaala — excavation for burial
• Ossetian: ингӕн (ingæn) — excavation for burial
• Ossetian: цирт (cirt) — excavation for burial
• Pannonian Rusyn: гроб (hrob) — excavation for burial
• Pashto: قبر (qabər) — excavation for burial
• Dari: گور (gōr) — excavation for burial
• Dari: قَبْر (qabr) — excavation for burial
• Iranian Persian: گور (gur) — excavation for burial
• Iranian Persian: قَبْر (ġabr) — excavation for burial
• Plautdietsch: Grauf — excavation for burial
• Polish: grób — excavation for burial
• Polish: mogiła — excavation for burial
• Portuguese: sepultura — excavation for burial
• Portuguese: cova — excavation for burial
• Portuguese: túmulo — excavation for burial
• Proto-Norse: ᚺᛚᚨᛁᚹᚨ (hlaiwa) — excavation for burial
• Rohingya: hobor — excavation for burial
• Rohingya: kobor — excavation for burial
• Romanian: mormânt — excavation for burial
• Romansh: fossa — excavation for burial
• Russian: моги́ла (mogíla) — excavation for burial
• Northern Sami: hávdi — excavation for burial
• Scottish Gaelic: uaigh — excavation for burial
• Serbo-Croatian: гро̏б — excavation for burial
• Serbo-Croatian: grȍb — excavation for burial
• Sidamo: moogo — excavation for burial
• Slovak: hrob — excavation for burial
• Slovene: gròb — excavation for burial
• Slovincian: grób — excavation for burial
• Somali: qabri — excavation for burial
• Somali: xabaal — excavation for burial
• Lower Sorbian: row — excavation for burial
• Southern Altai: сӧӧктӧр (sööktör) — excavation for burial
• Southern Altai: сӧӧк салган јер (söök salgan ǰer) — excavation for burial
• Southern Altai: сӧӧк салар оро (söök salar oro) — excavation for burial
• Southern Altai: ӧлгӧн јер (ölgön ǰer) — excavation for burial
• Southern Altai: межик (mežik) — excavation for burial
• Spanish: sepultura — excavation for burial
• Spanish: fosa — excavation for burial
• Sranan Tongo: grebi — excavation for burial
• Swahili: kaburi — excavation for burial
• Swedish: grav — excavation for burial
• Swedish: grift — excavation for burial
• Tajik: гӯр (gür) — excavation for burial
• Tajik: қабр (qabr) — excavation for burial
• Tarifit: anḍer — excavation for burial
• Tatar: кабер (qäber) — excavation for burial
• Tatar: гүр (gür) — excavation for burial
• Thai: หลุมฝังศพ (lǔm-fǎng-sòp) — excavation for burial
• Thai: หลุมศพ (lǔm-sòp) — excavation for burial
• Tigrinya: መቓብር (mäx̣abr) — excavation for burial
• Turkish: mezar — excavation for burial
• Turkish: gömüt — excavation for burial
• Turkish: sin — excavation for burial
• Turkish: kabir — excavation for burial
• Turkish: makber — excavation for burial
• Turkish: metfen — excavation for burial
• Ottoman Turkish: قبر (kabr, kabir) — excavation for burial
• Turkmen: gör — excavation for burial
• Turkmen: mazar — excavation for burial
• Udi: ҝаьраьмзаь (gjärämzä) — excavation for burial
• Udmurt: шайгу (šajgu) — excavation for burial
• Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎁𐎗 (qbr) — excavation for burial
• Ukrainian: моги́ла (mohýla) — excavation for burial
• Ukrainian: гріб (hrib) — excavation for burial
• Unami: mahchikamik — excavation for burial
• Urdu: قَبْر (qabr) — excavation for burial
• Urdu: گور (gor) — excavation for burial
• Uyghur: قەبرە (qebre) — excavation for burial
• Uzbek: qabr — excavation for burial
• Uzbek: goʻr — excavation for burial
• Uzbek: qubur — excavation for burial
• Vietnamese: mộ — excavation for burial
• Vietnamese: mồ — excavation for burial
• Vietnamese: mả — excavation for burial
• Vietnamese: phần mộ — excavation for burial
• Vilamovian: graob — excavation for burial
• Vilamovian: grob — excavation for burial
• Welsh: bedd — excavation for burial
• Woiwurrung: tham-bŭr — excavation for burial
• Wolaytta: duufuwa — excavation for burial
• Yiddish: גרוב (grub) — excavation for burial
• Yiddish: קבֿר (keyver) — excavation for burial
• Yiddish: קבֿרל (keyverl) — excavation for burial
• Zazaki: mezel — excavation for burial
• Zazaki: qebır — excavation for burial
• Zhuang: moh — excavation for burial
• Afrikaans: graveer — to carve letters or similar
• Afrikaans: ets — to carve letters or similar
• Albanian: kru — to carve letters or similar
• Albanian: gdhend — to carve letters or similar
• Bulgarian: гравирам (graviram) — to carve letters or similar
• Danish: gravere — to carve letters or similar
• Finnish: kaivertaa — to carve letters or similar
• French: graver — to carve letters or similar
• Irish: grábháil — to carve letters or similar
• Italian: intagliare — to carve letters or similar
• Macedonian: вре́же (vréže) — to carve letters or similar
• Macedonian: вре́жува (vréžuva) — to carve letters or similar
• Macedonian: грави́ра (gravíra) — to carve letters or similar
• Macedonian: изграви́ра (izgravíra) — to carve letters or similar
• Middle English: graven — to carve letters or similar
• Russian: выреза́ть (vyrezátʹ) — to carve letters or similar
• Russian: гравирова́ть (gravirovátʹ) — to carve letters or similar
• Serbo-Croatian: urezati — to carve letters or similar
• Spanish: grabar — to carve letters or similar
• Albanian: gdhend — to carve to give a shape
• Bulgarian: изрязвам (izrjazvam) — to carve to give a shape
• Danish: skulptere — to carve to give a shape
• Finnish: kaivertaa — to carve to give a shape
• French: tailler — to carve to give a shape
• French: sculpter — to carve to give a shape
• Irish: grábháil — to carve to give a shape
• Italian: scolpire — to carve to give a shape
• Macedonian: обли́кува (oblíkuva) — to carve to give a shape
• Macedonian: дла́би (dlábi) — to carve to give a shape
• Macedonian: ре́зба (rézba) — to carve to give a shape
• Middle English: graven — to carve to give a shape
• Serbo-Croatian: oblikovati — to carve to give a shape
• Spanish: esculpir — to carve to give a shape
• Spanish: tallar — to carve to give a shape
• Afrikaans: ets — to impress on the mind
• Bulgarian: запечатвам (zapečatvam) — to impress on the mind
• Danish: etse — to impress on the mind
• French: graver — to impress on the mind
• Italian: imprimere — to impress on the mind
• Middle English: graven — to impress on the mind
• Russian: производи́ть впечатле́ние (proizvodítʹ vpečatlénije) — to impress on the mind
• Russian: произвести́ впечатле́ние (proizvestí vpečatlénije) — to impress on the mind
• Spanish: grabar — to impress on the mind