dobilas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian dâbuls (“clover”); further origin outside of Baltic uncertain.[1] The details of the relation to the Baltic word for apple (see Lithuanian obuolỹs, Latvian dâbuôls) remain unclear.[2][3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈd̪ôːbʲɪɫɐs̪]

Noun

dóbilas m (plural dobilaĩ) stress pattern 3a[4]

  1. (botany) (Trifolium) clover

Declension
Declension of dóbilas
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) dóbilas dobilaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas) dóbilo dobilų̃
dative (naudininkas) dóbilui dobiláms
accusative (galininkas) dóbilą dóbilus
instrumental (įnagininkas) dóbilu dobilaĩs
locative (vietininkas) dobilè dobiluosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) dóbile dobilaĩ

Hypernyms

Derived terms
nouns derived from dobilas
  • dobiliukas (diminutive)
  • dobiliena f
  • dobilynas m
  • dobilynė f
  • dobilojas m
  • (adjective) dobilinis
  • (verb) dobiluoti

References
  • “dobilas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
  1. Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “dobilaĩ”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 117
  2. “dobilas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 340
  4. “dobilas” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
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