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Lithuanian
Etymology
From the same root as dìrbti (“to work”); see there for more.[1] Cognate with Latvian darbs; outside of Baltic, according to Brückner, this term is also related to Polish drabina (“ladder”).[2]
Noun
dárbas m (plural darbaĩ) stress pattern 3
- work, job[3]
Declension
Derived terms
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See also
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “darbas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 115
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “drab”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 94
- ^ “darbas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN