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Pronunciation

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Verb

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grast

  1. inflection of grasen:
    1. second-person singular/plural present
    2. third-person singular present
    3. plural imperative

Kalasha

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit ग्रस्तृ (grastṛ, devourer, swallower).

Noun

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grast

  1. wolf

Romani

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Armenian գրաստ (grast, pack animal).[1][2]

Noun

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grast m anim (accusative grastes, nominative plural grasta, accusative plural grasten)

  1. horse[2][3][4][5][6]

Descendants

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  • Kalo Finnish Romani: grai
  • Traveller Norwegian: grei

References

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  1. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գրաստ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  2. 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “grast”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 101b
  3. ^ Vaillant, Jean-Alexandre (1868) “gras’”, in Grammaire, dialogues et vocabulaire de la langue des Bohémiens ou Cigains (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve, page 106b
  4. ^ Paspati, Alexandre G. (1870) “grast”, in Études sur les Tchinghianés; ou, Bohémiens de l'Empire ottoman (in French), Constantinople: Impr. A. Koroméla, page 249
  5. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o grast, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 155a
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    Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149a