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Russian
Etymology
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Cognate with Lithuanian skabarga.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: ска́‧ба
Noun
ска́ба • (skába) f inan (genitive ска́бы, nominative plural ска́бы, genitive plural скаб, diminutive ска́бочка)
- (Southern Russia) splinter
Declension
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Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “скаба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Dal, Vladimir (1866) “Ска́ба, ска́бка”, in Толковый Словарь Живаго Великорускаго Языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 1st edition, volume 4, page 172
- Vasmer, Max (1955) “ска́ба”, in Russisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (Indogermanische Bibliothek; 2) (in German), volumes 2 (L – Ssuda), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, →ISBN, page 630