verba
Afrikaans edit
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verba
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin verba, plural of verbum (“word”) reanalysed as a singular.
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Noun edit
verba f (plural verbes)
- (in certain fixed expressions) word, speech
- joke, prank
- 1969, Jaume Vidal Alcover, Les quatre llunes:
- Deixaren de parlar de l'hort i feien verbes sobre la llegenda del tresor.
- They left off talking about the garden and made jokes about the legend of the treasure.
- 2015, Sebastià Alzamora, La malcontenta:
- T'has pensat que ho dic de verbes, Salamanca?
- You thought I said it as a joke, Salamanca?
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Further reading edit
- “verba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch edit
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Audio (file)
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verba
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Adjective edit
verba (accusative singular verban, plural verbaj, accusative plural verbajn)
- verbal (pertaining to verbs)
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Latin verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
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Noun edit
verba f (plural verbas)
References edit
- “verba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “verba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “verba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch verba (“verbs”), from Latin verba, verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
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Noun edit
vèrba (first-person possessive verbaku, second-person possessive verbamu, third-person possessive verbanya)
- (grammar) verb, a word that indicates an action, event, or state.
- Synonym: kata kerja
Further reading edit
- “verba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯er.ba/, [ˈu̯ɛrbä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈver.ba/, [ˈvɛrbä]
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verba
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verba m
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verba n pl
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verba n pl
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ver‧ba
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verba f (plural verbas)
Spanish edit
Noun edit
verba f (plural verbas)
Further reading edit
- “verba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014