verb

Etymology
From, directly from , reinforced by , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
 * 2)  Any word; a vocable.
 * 3)  An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
 * 4)  A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
 * 1)  An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
 * 2)  A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
 * 1)  A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
 * 1)  A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.

Usage notes
Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.

Hyponyms

 * See: Thesaurus:verb

Derived terms

 * See also: Thesaurus:verb

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: فعل
 * Aragonese:
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: מלתא
 * Syriac: ܡܠܬܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ক্ৰিয়া
 * Asturian:
 * Aymara: parliri
 * Azerbaijani: fe'l, feil
 * Bashkir: ҡылым
 * Basque: aditz
 * Belarusian: дзеясло́ў
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bikol Central: panhiro
 * Bishnupriya Manipuri:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: часослова
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: хандош
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 動詞
 * Hakka: 動詞
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: глагол
 * Crimean Tatar: fiil
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dhivehi: ކއަނ
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: теввал, теемавал
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, pöördsõna,
 * Ewe: dɔwɔnya
 * Extremaduran:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Franco-Provençal:
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , , , Wandelwort, /,
 * Middle High German: wort
 * Middle High German / Early New High German: wort
 * Old High German: wort
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ῥῆμα
 * Greenlandic: oqaluut
 * Gujarati: ક્રિયાપદ
 * Hausa: fi'ili
 * Hawaiian: haʻina
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: ngwaa
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: kriyo
 * Kalmyk: үүлдәгч
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: pangdiua, paglindayug
 * Kashmiri: کرٛاوُت
 * Kashubian: czasnik
 * Kazakh: етістік
 * Khmer: កិរិយាស័ព្ទ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کردار
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ກິລິຍາ
 * Latin:, verbum temporale
 * Latvian:, , norisenis
 * Ligurian: vèrbo
 * Limburgish:, vèrb
 * Lingala: likelelo
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Doonwoard,
 * Macedonian: гла́гол
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Maori:, tūmahi
 * Marathi: क्रियापद
 * Middle English: verbe
 * Mirandese: berbo
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠦᠢᠯᠡ ᠦᠭᠡ
 * Navajo: áhátʼíinii
 * Nepali:
 * Newar: यासु
 * Norman: vèrbe
 * Northern Sami: vearba
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: doodamowi-ikidowin
 * Old English:
 * Pali:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਕਿਰਿਆ
 * Quechua: ruray rimana
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi:
 * Samogitian: veikruodis
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scots: verb
 * Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гла̏гол
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: ක්රියා පද, ක්රියාව
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: fal
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: werb
 * Upper Sorbian: werb, słowjeso
 * Southern Sami: darjomebaakoe, veerbe
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: kecap pagawean
 * Swahili:
 * Swazi:
 * Swedish:, handlingsord, syssleord
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tigrinya: ግሲ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: فِعْل
 * Uyghur: پېئىل
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: verbo
 * Vietnamese: (動詞)
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Wolof:
 * Xhosa:
 * Yiddish:, צײַטוואָרט
 * Yoruba: ọ̀rọ̀-ìṣe
 * Zazaki:, ,
 * Zhuang: dungswz
 * Zulu:

Verb

 * 1)  To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
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 * 1)  To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
 * 1)  To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
 * 1)  To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
 * 1)  To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.

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Noun

 * 1) verb