vabole

• (dialectal forms) vabols, vabolis, vabule, vabuls, vabulis, vabala, vabale, vabals, vabele

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, dung beetle, Russian dialectal веблица (véblica, “intestinal worm”), Old High German wibil, Old Saxon wivil (“insect”), English weevil (“beetle sp.”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [vabùolɛ]

vabole f (5th declension)

1. beetle (any of many insect species (order: Coleoptera) with two hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings)

   gaļēdājas, visēdājas vaboles ― carnivorous, omnivorous beetles

   brūnā vabole ― brown beetle

   dārzu vabole ― garden beetle

   biešu vabole ― beet beetle

• mēslvabole, mēslu vabole

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