koobas

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kooppa. Cognate to Finnish kuoppa, Votic kooppa, and Veps kop. Compare also Eastern Mari куп (kup, “bog”), Udmurt гоп (gop, “hole”), and Komi-Zyrian гӧп (göp, “small lake, hole”).

Noun

koobas (genitive koopa, partitive koobast)

  1. cave

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading
  • koobas in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
  • M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “koobas”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language]‎ (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
  • koobas in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
  • koobas in Sõnaveeb
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