schaven

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxaːvə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -aːvən

From Middle Dutch schāven, from Old Dutch *skavan, from Proto-West Germanic *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną.

schaven

1. (transitive) to plane, to grate
2. (transitive) to smooth
3. (intransitive) to rub roughly, over a rough surface

• beschaven

• → Papiamentu: skaf, schaaf, skaaf

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

schaven

1. Plural form of schaaf

From Middle Low German schāven, from Old Saxon skavan.

schaven (past schaav, past participle schaavt, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (transitive) to scrape; to scratch; to scour; to chafe
2. (intransitive) to scrape
3. (reflexive) to scrape oneself; to scrub oneself
4. (reflexive, figuratively) to shave oneself

• afschaven

from Old Dutch *scavan, from Proto-West Germanic *skaban.

schāven

1. to plane
2. to scrape
3. to shave
4. to grind, to pulverise

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: schaven
• Limburgish: sjave

• “scaven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “schaven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• shaven, schave, shave

From Old English sċafan, from Proto-West Germanic *skaban.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaːvən/

schaven

1. To scrape or scratch, especially into pieces:
   1. To make sharp or smooth; to hone or whet.
   2. To abrase surgically; to file off.
   3. To rub away or wipe out; to eliminate by abrasion.
2. To razor hair; to use a unpaired blade to cut hair:
   1. To shave; to remove all hair in a given area.
   2. To cut hair closely or fully.
3. To dice or chop off; to eliminate by cutting.

• schaver
• schavynge
• shave

• English: shave
  • Welsh: siafio
• Scots: schave, schaif, schaiff; shaav (through confluence with Norwegian skave)

• “shāven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-09.