grapa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "grapa"

Aragonese

Etymology

From Frankish *krappō (“hook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾapa/
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: gra‧pa

Noun

grapa f (plural grapas)

1. claw (of an animal)
2. staple (fastener)

Derived terms

• grapar

Further reading

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Frankish *krappō (“hook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈɡɾa.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈɡɾa.pa]

Noun

grapa f (plural grapes)

1. claw (of an animal)
2. staple (fastener)

Derived terms

• de quatre grapes
• engrapar
• grapar
• grapat
• grapejar

Descendants

• → Spanish: grapa

Further reading

• “grapa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “grapa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “grapa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “grapa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Etymology 2

Verb

grapa

1. inflection of grapar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Cebuano

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic غَرَّاف (ḡarrāf)

Proto-Afroasiatic *-t

Proto-Semitic *-at-

Arabic ـَة (-a)

Arabic غَرَّافَة (ḡarrāfa)bor.

Spanish garrafabor.

Cebuano garapa

Cebuano grapa

Syncopic form of garapa, borrowed from Spanish garrafa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾapa/ [ˈɡɾ̪aː.pa]
• Hyphenation: gra‧pa

Noun

grapa (Badlit spelling ᜄ᜔ᜇᜉ)

1. syncopic form of garapa

Further reading

• “grapa” in Pinoy Dictionary, Cyberspace.ph, 2010-2022.
• John U. Wolff (1972), A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan‎^[1] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press

Polish

Alternative forms

• gropa (Kuyavia, Łowicz, Chąśno, Wierznowice)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): [ˈɡra.pa]
  • (Northern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈɡra.pa]
  • (Eastern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈɡra.pa]
• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): [ˈɡra.pa]
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Goral):
    • (Zagórze) IPA^(key): [ˈɡra.pa]

Noun

grapa f (diminutive grapka)

1. (Kuyavia) synonym of naczynie
2. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Far Masovian) iron pot with three legs
3. (Zagórze) hill, steep mound, high bank

See also

• drybinek

Further reading

• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “grapa”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “grapa”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 34
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894), “grapa”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 109
• Józefa Kobylińska (2001), “grapa”, in Marian Kucała, editor, Słownik gwary gorczańskiej (zagórzańskiej)‎^[2] (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, →ISBN, page 46

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• graspa

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.pɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.pɐ/

• Hyphenation: gra‧pa

Noun

grapa f (plural grapas)

1. grappa (Italian grape-based spirit)

Further reading

• “grapa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “grapa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrapa]

Noun

grapa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of grapă

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡràːpa/

Noun

grápa f

1. ditch

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	grápa
gen. sing.	grápe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	grápa	grápi	grápe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	grápe	gráp	gráp
dative (dajȃlnik)	grápi	grápama	grápam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	grápo	grápi	grápe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	grápi	grápah	grápah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	grápo	grápama	grápami

Further reading

• “grapa”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “grapa”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾapa/ [ˈɡɾa.pa]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: gra‧pa

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Frankish *krappō

Catalan grapabor.

Spanish grapa

Borrowed from Catalan grapa, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”). Compare English grape.

Alternative forms

• grampa (nonstandard)

Noun

grapa f (plural grapas)

1. staple (fastener)
2. clamp
3. (medicine) stitch

Derived terms

• de a grapa
• engrapar
• grapadora, engrapadora, engrampadora, engrapador (“stapler”)
• grapar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

grapa

1. inflection of grapar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “grapa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026

Anagrams

• pagar