Feminine

Scherbe

Meaning

shard, sherd, fragment

Concepts

broken piece

broken pieces

piece of broken crockery

broken fragment

break glass

Frequency

34k
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schäärbe

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃɛʁbə/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German scherbe, from Old High German scirbi, from Proto-Germanic *skarbōjan-, related to *skrapōną (“to scratch”).

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