# grava
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈɡɾa.βə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈɡɾa.və]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡɾa.va]

### Etymology 1

From Old French grave (“sandbank”).

#### Noun

grava f (plural graves)
* gravel

##### Derived terms

* engravar
* gravenc
* gravera
* graveta

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

grava
* inflection of gravar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “grava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “grava”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “grava” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “grava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From French, Italian and English grave, ultimately from Latin gravis. Compare German gravitätisch.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡrava]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ava
* Hyphenation: gra‧va

### Adjective

grava (accusative singular gravan, plural gravaj, accusative plural gravajn)
* important
** 2000, Wolfgang Kirschstein, “Tolstoj instigas ankoraŭ hodiaŭ”, in La Ondo de Esperanto‎, volume 11, number 73, archived from the original on 11 May 2013:Resurekto kaj pasko estas la plej gravaj okazintaĵoj en la ortodoksa kredo, sed ĉe Tolstoj ne temas pri tiu resurekto aŭ iu transmonda miraklo.The Resurrection and Easter are the most important events in the orthodox belief, but Tolstoy's work isn't about that resurrection or any otherworldly miracle.
* serious, grave
** 1912, E. Ĉefeĉ, "Pluaj argumentoj por pruvi, ke la teorio: "La radikoj en Esperanto havas gramatikan karakteron" kontraustaras la intencojn de la fundamento":
    Grava danĝero por la estonteco de nia lingvo kuŝas, laŭ mia opinio, en la akcepto de tiu propono.A serious danger for the future of our language lies, in my opinion, in the acceptance of that proposal.

#### Antonyms

* malgrava (“unimportant, trivial”)

#### Derived terms

* gravaĵo (“something important”)
* grave (“importantly”)
* graveco (“importance”)
* gravi (“to be important”)
* gravulo (“important person, VIP”)
* ne gravas (“it’s not important; it doesn't matter”)

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse grafa (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

### Verb

grava (third person singular past indicative gróv, third person plural past indicative gróvu, supine grivið)
* to dig

#### Conjugation
## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

grava
* third-person singular past historic of graver

## Ido
### Adjective

grava
* heavy, weighty

#### Synonyms

* pezoza

#### Antonyms

* lejera

## Italian
### Verb

grava
* inflection of gravare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Verb

gravā
* second-person singular present active imperative of gravō

### References

* grava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* graven

### Noun

grava m or f
* definite feminine singular of grav

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡrɑːʋɑ/

#### Noun

grava f
* definite singular of grav

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse grafa, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

#### Alternative forms

* grave (e infinitive)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ɡrɑːʋɑ/

#### Verb

grava (present tense grev, past tense grov, past participle grave, passive infinitive gravast, present participle gravande, imperative grav)
* dig
    Kor djupt har du tenkt å grava?How deep do you intend to dig?

### References

* “grava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* græva

### Etymology

From Old Norse grafa, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

### Verb

grava
* to dig
* to bury

#### Descendants

* Swedish: grava, gräva

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾa.vɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾa.vɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾa.va/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɾa.vɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɾa.vɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɾa.bɐ/ [ˈɡɾa.βɐ]
* Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
* Hyphenation: gra‧va

### Verb

grava
* inflection of gravar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French graver.

### Verb

a grava (third-person singular present gravează, past participle gravat) 1st conjugation
* to engrave

#### Related terms

* gravare
* gravat
* gravor
* gravură

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾaba/ [ˈɡɾa.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: gra‧va

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Catalan grava (“gravel”).

#### Noun

grava f (plural gravas)
* gravel
    Synonym: gravilla

##### Descendants

* → Bikol Central: graba
* → Cebuano: graba
* → Hiligaynon: grabas
* → Tagalog: graba

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

grava
* inflection of gravar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “grava”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Formed from grav (“grave”), referring to burying fish in the ground.

### Verb

grava (present gravar, preterite gravade, supine gravat, imperative grava)
* (cooking) to dry-cure with a mix of salt, sugar, and spices (commonly salmon, herring, or common whitefish, but also used for red meat)

#### Derived terms

* gravlax

#### Related terms

* gravning

#### See also

* rimma (“salt-cure”)

### Adjective

grava
* inflection of grav:
** definite singular
** plural

### References

* grava in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* grava in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* grava in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)