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stabs

1. plural of stab

stabs

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stab

• basts

stabs c

1. indefinite genitive singular of stab

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)

1. 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)

2. (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)

3. 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

• burtstabiņš
• stabiņš

stabs

1. indefinite genitive singular of stab