CilmeInherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *stábas, from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, to hold, to pound, to tread”).
- declension-1, masculinepole, post, pillar (vertically placed long, thin, cylindrical object to keep something in place)
“sētas stabi” — fenceposts
“telefona stabi” — telephone poles
“elektrības stabi” — electricity poles
- declension-1, figuratively, masculinecolumn, pillar (a volatile substance rising upright in the air)
“putekļu stabs” — column of dust
“dūmu stabs” — column of smoke
“uguns stabs” — pillar of fire
- declension-1, masculinecolumn (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
Formasstabs(nominative, singular) · stabi(nominative, plural) · staba(genitive, singular) · stabu(genitive, plural) · stabam(dative, singular) · stabiem(dative, plural) · stabu(accusative, singular) · stabus(accusative, plural) · stabu(instrumental, singular) · stabiem(instrumental, plural) · stabā(locative, singular) · stabos(locative, plural) · stab(singular, vocative) · stabi(plural, vocative)
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