grop

From Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“mass, lump”), probably via Gothic *𐌺𐍂𐌿𐍀𐍀𐍃 (*krupps). Doublet of gropa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾop]

grop m (plural grops)

1. knot (in wood)

   Synonym: nus

2. storm cloud
3. (figurative) difficult situation, fix

   Synonym: trifulga

• gropada

• “grop”, 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

Related to the verb grave

• IPA^(key): /ɡruːp/

grop f or m (definite singular gropa or gropen, indefinite plural groper, definite plural gropene)

1. a depression, hollow, hole, cavity, pothole (in the road)
   • 2013, George R.R. Martin, Stål og snø‎^[1], Vendetta forlag as, →ISBN:

     ... begge var smale veier med dype groper etter kjerrene til bønder som hadde dratt korn opp fra elven.

     ... both were narrow roads with deep ruts from the farmers' carts that had carried grain up from the river.

• dyphavsgrop

• “grop” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Related to the verb grave. Compare Swedish grop.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruːp/

grop f (definite singular gropa, indefinite plural groper, definite plural gropene)

1. a depression, hollow, hole, cavity, pothole (in the road)

• plyndringsgrop

• “grop” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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grop m (plural grops)

1. group

From Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”).

grop f

1. ditch, drain

• English: groop

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gróp”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Old Swedish grop, grope. Doublet of gräva and gruva. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk grop.

grop c

1. hole in the ground, pit
2. hollow; a sunken area in something solid

• grop in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• grop in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾop/

grop (Nisheigram)

1. womb
2. cozy place