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Late Middle English shrobbe in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, from Old English scrybb. Doublet of shrub.

From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).

113 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: шубрак (šubrak) — a thicket or jungle
• Bulgarian: гъсталак (gǎstalak) — a thicket or jungle
• Czech: křoviska — a thicket or jungle
• Esperanto: vepro — a thicket or jungle
• Finnish: pensaikko — a thicket or jungle
• Finnish: pusikko — a thicket or jungle
• Finnish: puska — a thicket or jungle
• Finnish: tiheikkö — a thicket or jungle
• German: Gestrüpp — a thicket or jungle
• German: Buschwerk — a thicket or jungle
• Ancient Greek: σκῖρος (skîros) — a thicket or jungle
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjerr — a thicket or jungle
• Turkish: bük — a thicket or jungle
• Ottoman Turkish: بوك (bük) — a thicket or jungle
• Bulgarian: храсталак (hrastalak) — vegetation of inferior quality
• Finnish: puska — vegetation of inferior quality
• Finnish: pöheikkö — vegetation of inferior quality
• French: broussaille — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: mato — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: matogueira — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: gasgalleira — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: andruvial — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: adramal — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: mufedo — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: touceira — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: mouta — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: cira — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: bramal — vegetation of inferior quality
• Galician: freguiza — vegetation of inferior quality
• German: Gestrüpp — vegetation of inferior quality
• Māori: taekai — vegetation of inferior quality
• Māori: ururua — vegetation of inferior quality
• Māori: tahuere — vegetation of inferior quality
• Māori: mōheuheu — vegetation of inferior quality
• Māori: tāwhao — vegetation of inferior quality
• Māori: heuheu — vegetation of inferior quality
• Portuguese: mato — vegetation of inferior quality
• Portuguese: brenha — vegetation of inferior quality
• Russian: скраб (skrab) — vegetation of inferior quality
• Russian: куста́рник (kustárnik) — vegetation of inferior quality
• Spanish: breña — vegetation of inferior quality
• Spanish: maleza — vegetation of inferior quality
• Russian: ничто́жество (ničtóžestvo) — one who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow
• Bulgarian: дребосък (drebosǎk) — something small and mean
• Czech: zakrslík — something small and mean
• Russian: замо́рыш (zamóryš) — something small and mean
• Bulgarian: търкане (tǎrkane) — instance of scrubbing
• Dutch: schrobbeurt — instance of scrubbing
• Finnish: jynssäys — instance of scrubbing
• Finnish: jynssääjä — one who scrubs
• Arabic: حكّ (ḥək) — to rub hard
• Arabic: فْرك (frək) — to rub hard
• Bulgarian: търкам (tǎrkam) — to rub hard
• Bulgarian: жуля (žulja) — to rub hard
• Chinese Cantonese: 擦 (caat3) — to rub hard
• Chinese Mandarin: 擦洗 (cāxǐ) — to rub hard
• Czech: drhnout — to rub hard
• Czech: vydrhnout — to rub hard
• Dutch: schrobben — to rub hard
• Finnish: jynssätä — to rub hard
• Finnish: jyystää — to rub hard
• Finnish: kuurata — to rub hard
• French: récurer — to rub hard
• French: frotter — to rub hard
• German: scheuern — to rub hard
• German: schrubben — to rub hard
• Ancient Greek: σμήχω (smḗkhō) — to rub hard
• Gujarati: ઘાસવાનુ (ghāsvānu) — to rub hard
• Hebrew: קִרְצֵף (qirtzéf) — to rub hard
• Hungarian: sikál — to rub hard
• Italian: sfregare — to rub hard
• Italian: strofinare — to rub hard
• Kabuverdianu: skoba — to rub hard
• Lithuanian: šveisti — to rub hard
• Māori: ūkui — to rub hard
• Māori: kōmukumuku — to rub hard
• Māori: hūkui — to rub hard
• Māori: taitai — to rub hard
• Norman: scrober — to rub hard
• Norwegian: skrubbe — to rub hard
• Polish: szorować — to rub hard
• Polish: wyszorować — to rub hard
• Portuguese: esfregar — to rub hard
• Quechua: khituy — to rub hard
• Russian: скрести́ (skrestí) — to rub hard
• Russian: дра́ить (dráitʹ) — to rub hard
• Spanish: fregar — to rub hard
• Spanish: tallar — to rub hard
• Spanish: estregar — to rub hard
• Spanish: restregar — to rub hard
• Swedish: skrubba — to rub hard
• Turkish: ovmak — to rub hard
• Ottoman Turkish: فرچهلامق (fırçalamak) — to rub hard
• Walloon: schurer — to rub hard
• Walloon: rischurer — to rub hard
• Walloon: kifroyî — to rub hard
• Walloon: cafroter — to rub hard
• Yoruba: kín — to rub hard
• Yoruba: fọ̀ — to rub hard
• Finnish: jynssätä — to rub anything hard
• Hungarian: sikál — to rub anything hard
• Māori: taitai — to rub anything hard
• Finnish: puurtaa — to be diligent and penurious
• Bulgarian: отменям (otmenjam) — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• Czech: zrušit — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• Finnish: perua — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• Finnish: peruuttaa — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• French: annuler — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• Italian: disdire — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• Italian: annullare — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• Māori: whakakore — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• Polish: odwołać — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel
• Russian: отменять (otmenjatʹ) — to call off a scheduled event; to cancel