groapă

See also: groapa, Groapa, and groapã

Romanian

Etymology

Probably a substratum word, akin to Albanian gropë, or possibly derived from it. Compare also Aromanian groapã, Bulgarian гропа (gropa). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Old Norse grǫptr (“graving, grave, burial, funeral”), Old Church Slavonic гробъ (grobŭ, “grave”) and English grave.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: groa‧pă

Noun

groapă f (plural gropi)

1. hole (in the ground), pit, grave

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) groapă	groapa	(niște) gropi	gropile
genitive/dative	(unei) gropi	gropii	(unor) gropi	gropilor
vocative	groapă, groapo		gropilor

Declension of groapă

Derived terms

• gropar
• gropiță
• îngropa

Expressions

• cine sapă groapa altuia, cade singur în ea
• cu un picior în groapă

 

See also

• gaură
• bortă (archaic, regional)
• mormânt