darbs

English edit

Noun edit

darbs

plural of darb

Anagrams edit

bards, brads, drabs

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Baltic *darbas, from Proto-Indo-European *der-, *dar- (“to tear, to split”).

The original meaning was, according to some researchers, “till, plow” (compare Russian дерба́ (derbá, “breaking; newly ploughed field”); the object of this work is Old Norse torf, torfa (“turf, sod, peat”), German Torf (“peat”), English turf, which has the same origin as Russian дёрн (djorn, “sod, turf”)) or, according to others, “wicker-work, wattling, weaving” (compare Belarusian до́раб (dórab, “basket”) (< Proto-Slavic *dorbь), даро́віць (daróvicʹ, “to bend”)). Cognates include Lithuanian dárbas. ^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [dârps]

(file)

Noun edit

darbs m (1st declension)

work (noun), job, business

Declension edit

Declension of darbs (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	darbs	darbi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	darbu	darbus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	darba	darbu
dative (datīvs)	darbam	darbiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	darbu	darbiem
locative (lokatīvs)	darbā	darbos
vocative (vokatīvs)	darb	darbi

Derived terms edit

References edit

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “darbs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “darbs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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