different between galbe vs galge

English

Etymology

From French galbe. Doublet of garb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?alb/

Noun

galbe (plural galbes)

1. The contour or outline of something.
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1123:

     Her teeth sank into his lips, he felt the sweet galbe of her flanks and arching back.

   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow, Penguin Books 1955, p. 7:

     What was the word to describe the curves of those little valleys? They were as fine as the lines of a human body, they were informed with the subtlety of art. Galbe. That was a good word; but it was French.

Anagrams

• Gable, Gebal, bagel, gabel, gable, gleba

French

Etymology

From earlier galbe, garbe, borrowed from Italian garbo, from Italian garbare, from Gothic *???????????????????????? (*garw?n). Alternatively from Middle High German walbe (“slope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?alb/

Noun

galbe m (plural galbes)

1. curve; silhouette

Further reading

• “galbe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

galbe

1. vocative masculine singular of galbus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ????? (gyaruge), a shortening of ?????? (gyaru g?mu), itself from English gal game.

Noun

galge (plural galge)

1. (video games) A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.

Afrikaans

Noun

galge

1. plural of galg

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *??alg?-, *??alg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?alj?/, [???alj?]

Noun

galge c (singular definite galgen, plural indefinite galger)

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. gibbet (an upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display)

Inflection

See also

• galge on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?kal?ke/

Verb

galge

1. inflection of galgat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse galgi.

Noun

galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galger, definite plural galgene)

1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
2. a gantry

References

• “galge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse galgi

Noun

galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galgar, definite plural galgane)

1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
2. a gantry

References

• “galge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Galgen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?â?l?e/
• Hyphenation: gal?ge

Noun

g?lge f pl (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (Kajkavian, plural only) gallows
   • 1936, Miroslav Krleža, “Galženja?ka” in The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh:

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish galghe, from Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *??alg?-, *??alg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”).

Noun

galge c

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. coat hanger

Declension

Synonyms

• (coat hanger): klädhängare