German

Noun

Stabs

1. genitive singular of Stab

English

Noun

stabs

1. plural of stab

Verb

stabs

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of stab

Anagrams

• basts

Danish

Noun

stabs c

1. genitive singular indefinite of stab

Latvian

Sētas stabi (1)

Elektrības stabs (1)

Saules stabs (2)

Dūmu stabs (2)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *steb-, *stab- (with -as), from Proto-Indo-European *steb(ʰ)- ‎(“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 стобор ‎(stobór, “wooden fence”), Slovene steber ‎(stəbə́r, “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]

Noun

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 ― milimeter of mercury (lit. mercury column milimeter)

   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

Derived terms

• burtstabiņš
• stabiņš

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “stabs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Swedish

Noun

stabs

1. indefinite genitive singular of stab