stabs

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English edit

stabs

stabs

stabs c

Sētas stabi (1)

Elektrības stabs (1)

Saules stabs (2)

Dūmu stabs (2)

From Proto-Baltic *steb-, *stab- (with -as), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *stabas, from, from 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]

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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

Declension of stabs (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	stabs	stabi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	stabu	stabus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	staba	stabu
dative (datīvs)	stabam	stabiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	stabu	stabiem
locative (lokatīvs)	stabā	stabos
vocative (vokatīvs)	stab	stabi

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

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