grev

grev

1. Soft mutation of krev.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrev/, [ɡ̊ʁæʊ]

grev

1. a short form of greve, used as a pre-name title

• greva

Borrowed from French grève (“strike”).^[1]

grev f (Hebrew spelling גריב׳)^[1]

2. strike (cessation of work)
   • 1998, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Mil i un Djoha‎^[1], Matilda Koén-Sarano, page 7:

     Al bakal kuando abashi
     Yo serrado lo topí,
     I si salgo a viajar
     Una grev ay vo topar.

     Down to the shopkeeper when I went, I found [out that he was] closed, and if I go on a trip, there’s a strike [that] I’m going to find.

   • 2003, Richard Ayoun, translated by Prof. Haïm-Vidal Sephiha, Djudeo-espanyoles: Los Kaminos de Una Komunidad‎^[2], Judéo-Espagnol a Auschwitz, page 63:

     En los Payizes‐Bashos, ande los primeros arrevatamientos empesaron en 1941, los ovreros sindikados de Amsterdam izieron grev kontra los arrestos i las deportasiones a Mauthausen.

     In the Netherlands, where the first roundups started in 1941, Amsterdam’s unionised workers went on strike against the arrests and deportations to Mauthausen.

• grève (continental Normandy, Jersey)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grava (attested in Medieval Latin; compare French grève), of pre-Latin origin.

grev f (plural grevs)

1. (Sark) beach

grev

1. present of grava

• greav (Sutsilvan)
• greiv (Puter, Vallader)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.

grev m (feminine singular greva, masculine plural grevs, feminine plural grevas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) heavy; weighty
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) difficult

• (heavy):
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pesant
  • (Sursilvan) pesont
  • (Sutsilvan) pasànt
  • (Surmiran) pasant

Borrowed from French grève.

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grev (definite accusative grevi, plural grevler)

1. strike (labor action)

• grevci (“striker”)

• → Northern Kurdish: grev

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “grev”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN