sabulis

sabulīs

1. dative/ablative plural of sabulum

 sabulis on Latvian Wikipedia

Apparently from an old Slavic or Baltic word, reputed to have been borrowed from an East-Asiatic language, though none of the proposed candidates is universally accepted. From Slavic, the word was borrowed into Germanic (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch sabel, German Zobel), from Germanic into French, and from French into English sable. Cognates include Lithuanian sãbalas, Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Czech sobol, Polish soból.^[1]

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sabulis m (2nd declension)

1. sable (a mustelid species of the marten family, Martes zibellina, mostly found in the Siberian taiga; also, its fur)

   sabuļa āda, sabuļāda ― sable fur

   sabuļa, sabuļādas cepure ― sable (fur) hat

   piebaikāla mežos sastopami slavenie sabuļi ― in the forests around the Baikal lake, the famous sable can be found

   sabulis ir viens no visvērtīgākajiem kažokzvēriem pasaulē ― the sable is one of the most valuable fur-bearing animals in the world

• Sibīrijas cauna