Noun: āda
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | āda |
| Accusative | ādu |
| Genitive | ādas |
| Dative | ādai |
| Instrumental | ādu |
| Locative | ādā |
| Vocative | āda |
Plural
| Nominative | ādas |
| Accusative | ādas |
| Genitive | ādu |
| Dative | ādām |
| Instrumental | ādām |
| Locative | ādās |
| Vocative | ādas |
Sample Sentences
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sejas āda (facial skin)
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gluda, maiga āda (smooth, soft skin)
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krunkaina āda (wrinkled skin)
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ādas slimības (skin diseases)
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pārstādīt ādu (transplant skin)
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kopt ādu (to take care of one's skin)
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čūska met ādu (the snake is throwing (= leaving) its skin)
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zirgam uz kakla noberzta āda (the horse has sore skin on its neck)
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ādas apstrādāšana (leather processing)
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ādu fabrika (leather factory)
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ādas mētelis, josta, cimdi (leather coat, belt, gloves)
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kurpes ar ādas zoli (shoes with leather soles)
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miecēt ādas (to tan skin)
Nouns inflected like āda
tulkošana,
secība,
sezona,
saruna,
sajūta,
samaņa,
smarža,
skudra,
sklēra,
muļķība,
pirmdiena,
bebrāda,
skaudība,
kaklarota,
psihiatrija,
vīksna,
vīnoga,
izmaksa,
sešpaka,
melnaugļu aronija, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *ād-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂edʰ-, a parallel form of *h₂eǵ- (“goat”) (whence Latvian āzis (“billy-goat”), q.v.). The term may originally have been adjectival (cf. Lithuanian ódinis (“skin, of skin”)). A relationship between terms for “goat” and “skin” is not infrequent in Indo-European; cf. Russian коза́ (kozá, “goat”), ко́жа (kóža, “skin”), or Sanskrit अजा (ajā, “she-goat”), अजिनम् (ajínam, “skin”). In Latvian, the term expanded its meaning to cover both human and animal skin (or fur), as well as animal skin as material for making objects, ideas often distinguished in other languages (e.g., German Haut, Fell, and Leder). The original meaning is perhaps preserved in the Finnish borrowing vuota (“(raw) hide, pelt”). Cognates include Lithuanian óda, Sanskrit अत्क (átka, “armor, outfit”) (< *h₂eǵ-ko-), Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós, “leather wine-skin”), Albanian dhi (“goat”) (< *h₂edʰ-i). See: Latvian Nouns '
āzis', German Nouns '
Haut', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἀσκός'.
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