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

• IPA^(key): [vabùolɛ]

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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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