English

Noun

heben ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete) ebony

Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue / That glorious fire it kindled in his hart / Lay now thy deadly Heben bow apart / And with thy mother milde come to mine ayde - Spenser, "The First Booke of The Faerie Qveene"

German

Etymology

From Old High German heffen, heven, hevan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyé-, from the root *keh₂p- ‎(“to seize”). Compare Dutch heffen, English heave, Danish hæve.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːbən/, [ˈheːbm̩]

Verb

heben ‎(class 6 strong, third-person singular simple present hebt, past tense hob, past participle gehoben, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to lift; to raise
2. (transitive) to heave; to hoist
3. (reflexive) to rise; to lift

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Related terms

• haben
• Hebel