drabina

From Old Polish drab, cognate to Belarusian драбіны (drabiny) and Ukrainian драби́на (drabýna) (not Serbo-Croatian drȇbīna which is from German Drehbühne). This is possibly from a Proto-Slavic *drabь or *drabъ but possibly also a borrowing. Compare German Treppe (“stairs”) from Middle High German treppe, trappe, German Trappe (“trap”) – connected as something trodden into –, English trap from Old English træppe, Dutch trap (“stairs”), Middle Low German / Middle Dutch / Dutch / German trappen, German trappeln, German trapsen, Dutch trippelen, Luxembourgish trëppelen, Middle High German and German trippeln (“to walk intensively”), nasalized German, Middle Low German and Dutch trampen, trampeln > English tramp, trample, Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌼𐍀𐌰𐌽 (anatrimpan, “to crowd upon”). These words are at some point all of imitative origin, and perhaps Proto-Germanic *titrōną (“to titter”), Proto-Germanic *trudaną, *tredaną (“to tread”), Ancient Greek δρασμός (drasmós, “flight”), διδράσκω (didráskō, “to flee”) are of the same root. Else in Balto-Slavic it has been connected to Lithuanian dìrbti (“to work”) (so Brückner) which equals Proto-Germanic *derbaną (“to work”), to Lithuanian drebė́ti (“to quiver”), Russian дря́бы (drjáby, “carriage for sheaves”), Belarusian дра́бы (dráby, “rips”), Czech droby (“giblets”).

• IPA^(key): /draˈbʲi.na/

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drabina f (diminutive drabinka)

1. ladder (climbing tool)

   wspinać się po drabinie - to climb up a ladder

• (noun) drabiniak, drabinka
• (adjectives) drabiniasty, drabinowy

• (regional) drabka

• “Treppe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• drabina in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, ISBN 978-83-08-03648-8, page 122
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “drab”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, published 1985, page 94