Noun: vabole
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | vabole |
| Accusative | vaboli |
| Genitive | vaboles |
| Dative | vabolei |
| Instrumental | vaboli |
| Locative | vabolē |
| Vocative | vabole |
Plural
| Nominative | vaboles |
| Accusative | vaboles |
| Genitive | vaboļu |
| Dative | vabolēm |
| Instrumental | vabolēm |
| Locative | vabolēs |
| Vocative | vaboles |
Sample Sentences
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gaļēdājas, visēdājas vaboles (carnivorous, omnivorous beetles)
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brūnā vabole (brown beetle)
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dārzu vabole (garden beetle)
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biešu vabole (beet beetle)
Nouns inflected like vabole
mēslvabole,
vēzele,
metropole,
viesmīle,
pasaule,
smalkvīle,
normāle,
centrāle,
dzeloņu stieple,
datorspēle,
dvēsele,
klausule,
strēmele,
akmeņogle,
skaistule,
ābele,
ēvele,
rupjvīle,
šķēle,
dzeloņstieple, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *web-, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move here and there, to wave, to teem”). Cognates include Lithuanian vãbalas, vãbuolas (“insect”), vãbolė, vabolė̃ (“dung beetle”), Russian dialectal ве́блица (véblica, “intestinal worm”), Old High German wibil, Old Saxon *wivil (“beetle”), English weevil (“beetle sp.”). See: English Nouns '
weevil'.
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