gripe

(Îngilîzî)

Verb

1. (informal, intransitive) To complain; to whine.
2. (informal, transitive) To annoy or bother.
3. To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
5. (intransitive) To suffer griping pains.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
7. (archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.

Noun

1. A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
2. A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
3. (obsolete) Grasp; clutch; grip.
4. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
5. (dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
6. (obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
7. (in-plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

Noun

Alternative form of grype.

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ɡɹaɪp/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: gripen

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: grīpan

Hevwate bi frîsî: gripe

Hevwate bi nedersaksî: griepen

Hevwate bi holendî: grijpen

Hevwate bi almanî: greifen

Hevwate bi danmarkî: gribe

Hevwate bi swêdî: gripa

In summary

From Middle English gripen, from Old English grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Swedish gripa. See also grip, grope.

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