delve

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
2. (ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
3. (ambitransitive) To dig; to excavate.

Noun

A pit or den.

Conceptes

cavar

excavar

excavació

Sinònims

dig

excavate

burrow

hollow

search

dig up

mine

unearth

rake

dig out

scrabble

cut into

shave

explore

rummage

scratch

scrape

turn over

hoe

hollow out

investigate

pit

poke into

probe

quarry

ransack

ream

remove

rout

sap

seek

🔍

slave

take out

trench

withdraw

go deep

kar

depression

research

root around

to work hard

excavated hole

hgollow

cave

cavity

chuckhole

colliery

cut

den

dig into

Traduccions

delven

σκάβω

creuser

cavar

indagare

fouiller

cavar

bellemek

حفر

araştırmak

fare ricerche

استبحر

نقب

استبط

اجتهد

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dɛlv/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: delven

Heretat de anglès antic: delfan

Cognat amb frisó occidental: dolle

Cognat amb neerlandès: delven

Cognat amb baix alemany: dölven

Cognat amb alemany: delben

Heretat de anglès mitjà: delve

Heretat de anglès antic: delf

In summary

From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan (“to dig, dig out, burrow, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelbʰ- (“to dig”). Cognate with West Frisian dolle (“to dig, delve”), Dutch delven (“to dig, delve”), Low German dölven (“to dig, delve”), dialectal German delben, telben (“to dig, delve”).