[ˈkālps]
CilmeBorrowed from Old East Slavic холопъ (xolopŭ, “serf, slave”) (cf. Russian холоп (xolop)), itself a borrowing from Turkic (or, according to some researchers, a native word, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel-, *skel- “offshoot, seedlings, stem”). The borrowing must have happened by the 13th century at the latest; the first mentions of this word are in 17th-century dictionaries.
- declension-1farmhand, farm laborer, servant (a paid worker in a farm)
“strādāt par kalpu” — to work as a farmhand
“muižas kalpi” — the mannor's laborers
“pieņemt, atlaist, algot kalpus” — to accept, to dismiss, to hire servants
- declension-1, figurativelyservant (a person who works for some interest or cause)
“deputāts ir tautas kalps” — a congressman is a servant of the people
“dieva kalps” — a servant of god (e.g., a priest)
“tumsas kalpi” — servants of darkness
- declension-1jack, knave (the card between 10 and queen, with the image of a young man)
“pīķa kalps” — the jack of spades
“kapteinis sāka dalīt kārtis, un Vilks izklaidīgi ņēma tās pretī... tur bija viens kalps un trīs dāmas” — the captain began to deal the cards, and Vilks distractedly took them... there were one jack and three queens
Formaskal̃ps(canonical, masculine) · kalpone(feminine) · kalps(nominative, singular) · kalpi(nominative, plural) · kalpa(genitive, singular) · kalpu(genitive, plural) · kalpam(dative, singular) · kalpiem(dative, plural) · kalpu(accusative, singular) · kalpus(accusative, plural) · kalpu(instrumental, singular) · kalpiem(instrumental, plural) · kalpā(locative, singular) · kalpos(locative, plural) · kalp(singular, vocative) · kalpi(plural, vocative)
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