koobas

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kooppa, extended with -(a)s (compare dialectal koop, which was directly inherited). Cognates include Finnish kuoppa, Votic and Ingrian kooppa, Livvi kuoppu and Veps kop; possibly also Eastern Mari куп (kup, “bog”), Udmurt гоп (gop, “hole”) and Komi-Zyrian гӧп (göp, “small lake, hole”), although these are phonetically uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoˑb̥ɑs/, [ˈkoˑb̥ɑs]
• Rhymes: -oˑbɑs
• Hyphenation: koo‧bas

Noun

koobas (genitive koopa, partitive koobast)

1. cave (a natural large cavity, passage, or collection of them in the surface part of the earth's crust)
2. hole, burrow
3. cavity

Declension

Declension of koobas (ÕS type 7/kallas, p-b gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		koobas	koopad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	koopa
genitive			koobaste
partitive		koobast	koopaid
illative		koopasse	koobastesse koopaisse
inessive		koopas	koobastes koopais
elative		koopast	koobastest koopaist
allative		koopale	koobastele koopaile
adessive		koopal	koobastel koopail
ablative		koopalt	koobastelt koopailt
translative		koopaks	koobasteks koopaiks
terminative		koopani	koobasteni
essive		koopana	koobastena
abessive		koopata	koobasteta
comitative		koopaga	koobastega

Derived terms

• koobastik
• koopaline

 

Compounds

• kaldakoobas
• kaljukoobas
• karstikoobas
• kartulikoobas
• karukoobas
• kõhukoobas
• lõvikoobas
• ninakoobas
• pesakoobas
• põsekoobas
• rebasekoobas
• rinnakoobas
• röövlikoobas
• silmakoobas
• suukoobas
• toakoobas
• varakoobas

 

• koobasasula
• koobaselamu
• koobaspoor
• koobastempel
• koopaasukas
• koopaelanik
• koopainimene
• koopakaru
• koopalõvi
• koopamaal
• koopaorav
• koopasuu

 

References

• koobas in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “koobas”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009