stabs
English
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Noun
stabs
Verb
stabs
- third-person singular simple present indicative of stab
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Noun
stabs c
Latvian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Baltic *steb-, *stab- (with -as), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“post, pole, (tree) trunk; to support, to hold, to pound, to tread”). Cognates include Lithuanian stãbas (“idol, statue; pole; shape; paralysis; surrouding; respite, breathing space”), Old Prussian stabis (“rock, stone”), stabni (“oven”) (< *stabinē), Old Church Slavonic стоборъ (stoborŭ, “column”), Bulgarian стобо́р (stobór, “wooden fence”), Slovene stebér (“pole, idol”), Old Norse stafr (“stick, rod, support”), Old High German stab, Middle Low German staf, German Stab (“stick, rod, club”), English staff, Sanskrit स्तभ्नाति (stabhnā́ti, “to support, to strengthen”), Ancient Greek στέμβω (stémbō, “to pound, to shake continuously”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
stabs m (1st declension)
- pole, post, pillar (vertically placed long, thin, cylindrical object to keep something in place)
- sētas stabi ― fenceposts
- telefona stabi ― telephone poles
- elektrības stabi ― electricity poles
- vārtu stabi nolūzuši ― the goalposts broke off
- reklāmu stabs ― advertising pillar
- kauna stabs ― pillory (lit. shame pole)
- viņš stāv kā stabs ― he, it stands as a pillar (tall, immobile)
- (figuratively) column, pillar (a volatile substance rising upright in the air)
- putekļu stabs ― column of dust
- dūmu stabs ― column of smoke
- uguns stabs ― pillar of fire
- saules stabs ― sun pillar (optical phenomenon at sunset)
- column (part of a thermometer or barometer: a thin tube filled with a liquid substance, usually mercury)
- dzīvsudraba staba (= stabiņa) milimetrs ― millimeter of mercury (lit. mercury column millimeter)
- dzīvsudraba stabu barometra caurulē līdzsvaro atmosfēras spiediens ― the atmospheric pressure balances, is equivalent to the column of mercury in the tube of the barometer
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References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “stabs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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