stabs

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Noun

stabs

1. plural of stab

Verb

stabs

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

Anagrams

• basts

Noun

stabs c

1. genitive singular indefinite of stab

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 ― 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

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Noun

stabs

1. indefinite genitive singular of stab