Türkische aussprache
dräbSynonyme
drabcloth,
arid,
blah,
bleak,
boring,
brown,
characterless,
cheerless,
desolate,
dingy,
dismal,
dreary,
dry,
dull as dishwater,
fadedAussprache
/ˈdrab/ /ˈdræb/
Etymologie
[ 'drab ] (noun.) circa 1515. Middle English (“color of undyed cloth”), from Middle French drap (“cloth”), from Late Latin drappus (“drabcloth, kerchief”) (6th century, Vita Caesaris Arelatis)Jean-Paul Savignac, Dictionnaire français-gaulois, s.v. "drap" (Paris: la Différence, 2004), 123., from Gaulish *drappo,Robert K. Barnhart, ed., Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, s.v. "drab" (NY: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd., 2003). from Proto-Indo-European *drep- (“to scratch, tear”) (compare Old Norse trof (“fringes”), trefja (“to rub, wear out”), Lithuanian drãpanos (“household linens”), Serbo-Croatian drápati (“to scratch, scrape”), Ancient Greek δρέπω (drépein, “to pluck”), Avestan drafša (“flag, banner”), Sanskrit द्रापि (drāpí, “mantle, gown”)).Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, s.v. "drappo" (Paris: Errance, 2001).