kerb

English

Alternative forms

• curb (US and Canada)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)b
• Homophones: curb

Noun

kerb (plural kerbs)

1. (UK, New Zealand) The edge between the pavement and the roadway, consisting of a line of kerbstones.

Translations

edge between pavement and roadway

• Bulgarian: бордюр (bg) m (bordjur)
• Catalan: vorada (ca) f
• Czech: obrubník (cs) m
• Dutch: stoeprand (nl), borduur (nl)
• Finnish: reunakiveys (fi), jalkakäytävän reuna
• French: bordure du trottoir (fr) f
• Galician: bordo (gl) m
• German: Bordstein (de) m
• Irish: colbha (ga) m
• Italian: orlo del marciapiede (it) m

• Polish: krawężnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: guia (pt) f, meio-fio (pt) m
• Russian: бордюр (ru) (bordjúr) m , поребрик (ru) (porébrik) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: oir chabhsair (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: rubnik (sh), ivičnjak (sh) m
• Spanish: bordillo (es) m
• Swedish: trottoarkant (sv) c
• Welsh: ymyl palmant (cy) c

Verb

kerb (third-person singular simple present kerbs, present participle kerbing, simple past and past participle kerbed)

1. (UK, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.

Anagrams

• berk

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Kurdish

Noun

kerb gender unspecified

1. sadness