Noun: ķirbis
Hyphenation:
Gender:
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | ķirbis |
| Accusative | ķirbi |
| Genitive | ķirbja |
| Dative | ķirbim |
| Instrumental | ķirbi |
| Locative | ķirbī |
| Vocative | ķirbi |
Plural
| Nominative | ķirbji |
| Accusative | ķirbjus |
| Genitive | ķirbju |
| Dative | ķirbjiem |
| Instrumental | ķirbjiem |
| Locative | ķirbjos |
| Vocative | ķirbji |
Sample Sentences
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paraistais ķirbis (common pumpkin)
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baltais ķirbis (white gourd)
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ziemas ķirbji (winter squash)
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ķirbju sēklas (pumpkin seeds)
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lielaugļu ķirbis (big-fruited pumpkin, gourd)
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krūmu ķirbis (dwarf (lit. bush) gourd, calabash)
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ķirbju zupa (pumpkin soup)
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ķirbju salāti (pumpkin salad)
Nouns inflected like ķirbis
sirmis,
sirpis,
skapis,
ķirbis,
ķērpis,
divdabis,
dārzkopis,
ledus skapis,
biškopis,
pārstāvis,
aizstāvis,
šņabis,
debesskrāpis,
šķīvis,
ledusskapis,
krūškurvis,
lavis,
kāmis,
bēbis,
lietuvis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Kürbis, itself borrowed from Latin cucurbita (from an earlier *curbitia, via reduplication). This word is first mentioned in early 18th-century texts, but only in the 19th century did it become really popular and enter the standard literary language. Various expressions had previously been used to refer to this plant, usually comparing it to a cucumber or apple (“big cucumber”, “big apple”, “porridge apple,” “porridge cucumber,” etc.). The ending -s, which is part of the root in German, was reinterpreted as the Latvian Nom. Sg. ending -(i)s and is replaced accordingly in other grammatical cases. See: German Nouns '
Kürbis', Latin Nouns '
cucurbita'.
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