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scrab

/skɹæb/

scrab verb: to scrape or scratch.

Verb

scrab (third-person singular simple present scrabs, present participle scrabbing, simple past and past participle scrabbed)

  1. (transitive) To scrape or scratch.

Noun

scrab (plural scrabs)

  1. A crabapple.

scrab meaning in Urdu

scrab in Urdu

کھرچنا

Forms of scrab

Verb
third-person singular presentscrabs
present participlescrabbing
past participlescrabbed
pastscrabbed
Noun
pluralscrabs

Origin of scrab

From Middle French and Old French schrabben (“to scrape, scratch”), from Frankish *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”); compare Old High German skaban, Irish scríobann and sgrìoban.

From Middle English scrabbe, variant of crabbe (“crabapple”); ultimately of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba, krabbäpple.

Words formed from scrab

Words that rhyme with scrab

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Questions about scrab

What does scrab mean?
Scrab means to scrape or scratch.
What is scrab in Urdu?
Scrab in Urdu is کھرچنا. See Scrab meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is scrab?
Scrab can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce scrab?
Scrab is pronounced /skɹæb/.
What is the past tense of scrab?
The past tense of scrab is scrabbed.

Words near scrab in the dictionary

  1. SCPO
  2. SCPOs
  3. SCPs
  4. SCR
  5. scr.
  6. scrab
  7. scrabbed
  8. scrabbed eggs
  9. scrabbing
  10. scrabble
  11. scrabbled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrab (page history and authors); scrab (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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