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stabs

1. plural of stab

stabs

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stab

• basts

stabs c

1. indefinite genitive singular of stab

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *stábas, from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, to hold, to pound, to tread”).^[1]

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

• burtstabiņš
• stabiņš

stabs

1. indefinite genitive singular of stab