# verba
## Afrikaans
### Noun

verba
* plural of verbum

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin verba, plural of verbum (“word”) reanalysed as a singular.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbɛr.bə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈvɛr.bə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈvɛɾ.ba]

### Noun

verba f (plural verbes)
* (in certain fixed expressions) word, speech
* joke, prank
** 1969, Jaume Vidal Alcover, Les quatre llunes:Deixaren de parlar de l'hort i feien verbes sobre la llegenda del tresor.They left off talking about the garden and made jokes about the legend of the treasure.
** 2015, Sebastià Alzamora, La malcontenta:T'has pensat que ho dic de verbes, Salamanca?You thought I said it as a joke, Salamanca?

#### Related terms

* verb
* verbal

### Further reading

* “verba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

verba
* plural of verbum

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From verbo +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈverba]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -erba
* Hyphenation: ver‧ba

### Adjective

verba (accusative singular verban, plural verbaj, accusative plural verbajn)
* verbal (pertaining to verbs)

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈberβa̝/

### Noun

verba f (plural verbas)
* word
* gab, loquacity

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “verba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “verba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “verba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch verba (“verbs”), from Latin verba, verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɛrba]
* Hyphenation: vèrba

### Noun

vèrba (plural verba-verba)
* (grammar) verb, a word that indicates an action, event, or state
    Synonym: kata kerja

### Further reading

* “verba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯er.ba/, [ˈu̯ɛrbä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈver.ba/, [ˈvɛrbä]

### Noun

verba
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of verbum

## Latvian
### Noun

verba m
* genitive singular of verbs

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* verbene

### Noun

verba n pl
* definite plural of verb

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

verba n pl
* definite plural of verb

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvɛʁ.bɐ/ [ˈvɛɦ.bɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvɛʁ.bɐ/ [ˈvɛɦ.bɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈvɛɾ.bɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈvɛʁ.bɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈvɛɻ.ba/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvɛɾ.bɐ/ [ˈvɛɾ.βɐ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvɛɾ.bɐ/ [ˈvɛɾ.βɐ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbɛɾ.bɐ/ [ˈbɛɾ.βɐ]
* Hyphenation: ver‧ba

### Noun

verba f (plural verbas)
* budget (amount of money set aside for a project)
    Synonym: orçamento

## Spanish
### Noun

verba f (plural verbas)
* loquacity; gift of the gab

### Further reading

* “verba”, 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