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Etymology
[edit]From Old Polish drab + -ina, cognate to Belarusian драбіны (drabiny) and Ukrainian драби́на (drabýna) (not Serbo-Croatian drȇbīna which is from German Drehbühne). This is possibly from a Proto-Slavic *drabь or *drabъ but possibly also a borrowing.
Else in Balto-Slavic it has been connected to Lithuanian dìrbti (“to work”) (so Brückner) which equals Proto-Germanic *derbaną (“to work”), to Lithuanian drebė́ti (“to quiver”), Russian дря́бы (drjáby, “carriage for sheaves”), Belarusian дра́бы (dráby, “rips”), Czech droby (“giblets”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]drabina f (diminutive drabinka)
- ladder (climbing tool)
- Synonym: (regional) drabka
- wspinać się po drabinie ― to climb up a ladder
- ladder (a hierarchy)
Declension
[edit]Declension of drabina
Derived terms
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nouns
References
[edit]- “Treppe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “drabina”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 122
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “drab”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 94
Further reading
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