different between engrave vs begrave

English

Alternative forms

• ingrave

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v
• Hyphenation: en?grave

Etymology 1

From earlier ingrave, equivalent to en- +? grave (“to carve, engrave”). More at grave.

Verb

engrave (third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved)

1. (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

   • Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

2. (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (carve (text or symbols) into): carve, etch, inscribe

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- +? grave.

Verb

engrave (third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved)

1. (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     So both agree their bodies to engraue; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].

Anagrams

• Grevena, avenger, vernage

French

Verb

engrave

1. first-person singular present indicative of engraver
2. third-person singular present indicative of engraver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of engraver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of engraver
5. second-person singular imperative of engraver

Anagrams

• vengera

English

Etymology

From Middle English begraven, from Old English begrafan (“to bury”), from Proto-Germanic *bigraban? (“to dig around, bury”), equivalent to be- +? grave. Cognate with Saterland Frisian begreeuwe (“to bury”), West Frisian begrave (“to bury”), Dutch begraven (“to bury”), German begraben (“to bury”), Danish begrave (“to bury”), Swedish begrava (“to bury”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (bigraban, “to dig around”).

Verb

begrave (third-person singular simple present begraves, present participle begraving, simple past begraved or begrove, past participle begraved or begraven)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bury.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To engrave.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

begrave

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of begraven

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Presumably from be- +? grave; compare with Dutch begraven and Swedish begrava

Verb

begrave (imperative begrav, present tense begraver, passive begraves, simple past begravde or begravet or begrov, past participle begravd or begravet, present participle begravende)

1. to bury

   begrave stridsøksen - bury the hatchet

Derived terms

• begravelse

References

• “begrave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German begraven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???ra?v?/

Verb

begrave

1. to bury

Inflection

Derived terms

• begraafplak

Further reading

• “begrave”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011