zabrat
Letters
6 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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zabrat is aGermanverb. It means: sich mit militärischer/gerichtlicher Gewalt etwas bemächtigen, in Beschlag nehmen; besetzen, okkupieren, beschlagnahmen, einziehen Pronounced [ˈzabrat].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zabrat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzabrat] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for zabrat is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzabrat]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zabrat in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is zabrat, spelled Z-A-B-R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich mit militärischer/gerichtlicher Gewalt etwas bemächtigen, in Beschlag nehmen; besetzen, okkupieren, beschlagnahmen, einziehen
- 2mit seiner Größe/seinem Umfang einen bestimmten Platz in Anspruch nehmen; einnehmen, besetzen
- 3durch seinen Umfang eine gewisse Zeit benötigen; einnehmen, wegnehmen, in Anspruch nehmen, Zeit: kosten
- 4durch Foto oder Film etwas festhalten; aufnehmen, erfassen
- 5etwas (Bekleidung) kleiner machen; enger machen, kürzer machen
- 6beginnen zu arbeiten, funktionieren, Wirkung zu zeigen; greifen, Motor: anspringen, Fisch: anbeißen
- 7endlich beginnen etwas zu tun; anziehen, zupacken, zulangen, sich ins Zeug legen
- 8dát zabrat: die Kräfte rauben; ermüden
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