Noun: zarna
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | zarna |
| Accusative | zarnu |
| Genitive | zarnas |
| Dative | zarnai |
| Instrumental | zarnu |
| Locative | zarnā |
| Vocative | zarna |
Plural
| Nominative | zarnas |
| Accusative | zarnas |
| Genitive | zarnu |
| Dative | zarnām |
| Instrumental | zarnām |
| Locative | zarnās |
| Vocative | zarnas |
Sample Sentences
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zarnu trakts (intestinal tract)
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zarnu sieniņa (intestinal wall)
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tievā zarna (small (lit. thin) intestine)
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resnā zarna (colon (lit. fat intestine))
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taisnā zarna (rectum (lit. straight intestine))
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zarnu darbība (bowel movement (lit. intestine activity))
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zarnu slimības (intestinal diseases)
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zarnu iekaisums (intestinal inflammation)
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zarnu parazīti (intestinal parasites)
Nouns inflected like zarna
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 *źer-, *źar- (with an extra suffix *-nā), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowel, intestine”). In the 17th and 18th centuries, several variants of this stem are attested: zarnis, zarns, sarna. Cognates include Lithuanian žárna, žarnà, Old Norse gǫrn, Old High German garn, Middle Low German garn (“yarn”), German Garn (“yarn”), Albanian zorrë (“intestine”), Sanskrit हिरः (hiraḥ, “tape, stripe”), हिरा (hirā, “vein”), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), Latin haruspex (“diviner who reads the intestines of sacrificed animals”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
gǫrn', German Nouns '
Garn', Ancient Greek Nouns '
χορδή', Latin Nouns '
haruspex'.
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