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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob stobbe stabb ( “ a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon ” ) ), from Middle English stabbe ( “ a stab ” ) , probably a variant of Middle English stob stub stubbe ( “ pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump ” ) , from Old Norse stobbi stubbi Old English stybb Middle Dutch stobbe
Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob ( “ to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust ” ) ; supposed by others to be from a Scots
Noun
stab (plural stabs
An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object to hurt or kill someone.
1979 The Secret Brotherhood: A Novel , Seabury Press, →ISBN page 52 :A knife was flashing in his hand, and just as he was about to take a stab at me, the smith grabbed his arm from behind.
A wound made by stabbing.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard , She: A History of Adventure Longmans, Green, and Co. , published 1887 , →OCLC I opened the man's linen robe, and there over his heart was a dagger-wound, and beneath the woman's fair breast was a like cruel stab , through which her life had ebbed away.
Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
2001 Guys in Suits: A Novel , Doubleday, →ISBN page 73 :“I bet you two have really big plans. And might I say, that is just fab,” he said of Lynn's dress. “I'm glad someone noticed,” she replied, seeming to take a stab at me.
( informal ) attempt .
2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL , number 948 , page 22 :As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.
Criticism .( music ) staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition .
a horn stab A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
Derived terms
Translations
act of stabbing
Albanian: ther (sq)
Arabic: طَعْن m ( ṭaʕn )
Assamese: খোঁচা ( khü̃sa ) , হেঁচা ( hẽsa )
Asturian: puñalada (ast) f
Bulgarian: промушване (bg) n ( promušvane )
Catalan: punyalada (ca) f ganivetada (ca) f
Czech: bodnutí
Dutch: steek (nl)
Esperanto: piko
Finnish: pisto (fi) , pistäminen (fi)
French: percée (fr) f
Galician: puñalada f coitelada f
German: Stich (de) m
Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
Ilocano: bagkong
Indonesian: tikam (id)
Irish: rop m sá m
Italian: pugnalata (it) f
Latgalian: dūrt
Latin: ictus m
Latvian: durt (lv)
Lithuanian: durti
Malay: penikaman
Māori: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: stikk (no) n
Persian: خنجر زدن
Polish: dźgnięcie (pl) n
Portuguese: punhalada (pt) f facada (pt)
Russian: уда́р (ru) m ( udár ) , уко́л (ru) m ( ukól ) , проко́л (ru) ( prokól ) , прока́лывание (ru) n ( prokályvanije ) , протыка́ние (ru) n ( protykánije )
Spanish: puñalada (es) f cuchillada (es) f acuchillamiento m estocada (es) f
Sranan Tongo: dyuku
Sundanese: tewek
Swedish: hugg (sv) n stick (sv) n
Tagalog: saksak
Tamil: குத்து (ta) ( kuttu )
Thai: การแทง (th)
pain inflicted on a person's feelings
Verb
A man about to be stabbed. stab (third-person singular simple present stabs present participle stabbing simple past and past participle stabbed
( transitive ) pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed ) tool or weapon , especially a knife or dagger .
Synonyms: foin jab shiv see also Thesaurus:stab If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate.
1904–1905 i.e. , Emma Orczy ], “The Tremarn Case ”, in The Case of Miss Elliott T[homas] Fisher Unwin , published 1905 , →OCLC OCLC 11192831 The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html)Project Gutenberg of Australia , February 2020:"There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which [ …] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. [ …]
2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 12:32 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN) [1] the original on 4 December 2022 :Hornet blazed away as best she could, but, having to split her attention between high and low attackers, as well as having the aft 5-inch battery temporarily disabled by a young officer who'd accidentally run the guns into their stops, freezing them in position until the issue could be sorted, meant that two 550-pound semi-armor-piercing bombs, and one fractionally-lighter high-explosive bomb, soon crashed down, the first two stabbing deep into the ship and the other one blowing a hole in the flight deck, accompanied by a dive bomber that had been shot down but elected to go out by slamming into the Hornet as opposed to the sea. In some small comfort, that aircraft's bomb didn't go off as well.
( transitive ) thrust in a stabbing motion.
to stab a dagger into a person
( intransitive ) recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed ) object , such as a weapon or finger (often used with at ) .
He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.
( intransitive ) sharp , painful sensation (often used with at ) .
The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.
( transitive , figurative ) Synonyms: besmirch denigrate see also Thesaurus:defame to stab a person's reputation
( transitive ) roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster .( transitive ) pierce folded sheets , near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire .( transitive , oil industry ) guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
2005 Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs , Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, page 57 :[O]ne of the derrickman 's jobs is to "stab " the pipe.
Derived terms
Translations
to pierce or wound with pointed object
Aklanon: buno'
Arabic: طَعَنَ ( ṭaʕana )
Armenian: խոցել (hy) ( xocʻel )
Asturian: apuñalar (ast)
Azerbaijani: bıçaqlamaq
Bulgarian: пронизвам (bg) ( pronizvam ) , промушвам (bg) ( promušvam )
Burmese: ထိုး (my) ( htui: )
Catalan: apunyalar (ca) , acoltellar (ca)
Cherokee: ᎦᏘᎭ ( gatiha )
Chickasaw: baafa
Chinese:
Cantonese: 插 ( caap3 )
Mandarin: 刺 (zh) ( cì )
Czech: pobodat bodnout (cs) pf probodnout pf
Danish: stikke
Dutch: steken (nl)
Faroese: stinga (fo)
Finnish: puukottaa (fi) , pistää (fi)
French: poignarder (fr) , frapper d'un coup de couteau
Galician: apuñalar (gl) , acoitelar (gl) , anavallar (gl)
German: stechen (de) , erstechen (de) (to death), niederstechen (de)
Greek: μαχαιρώνω (el) ( machairóno )
Ancient Greek: νύσσω ( nússō )
Hebrew: דָּקַר (he) ( dakár )
Hindi: भोंकना ( bhoṅknā )
Hungarian: döf (hu) , szúr (hu)
Icelandic: stinga (is)
Indonesian: tikam (id)
Irish: sáigh rop
Italian: pugnalare (it) , accoltellare (it)
Japanese: 刺す (ja) ( さす, sasu )
Javanese: nyuduk (jv)
Old Javanese: suduk
Kashubian: pchac
Latin: ico pungo confodio fodio perfodio transfodio traicio perfigo perforo
Lithuanian: badyti
Malay: tikam (ms)
Mandar: susuq
Māori: oka pūmuka
Marathi: भोसकणे ( bhosakṇe )
Mokilese: doakoa
Muong: tâm
Murut:
Keningau Murut: monobok
Norwegian: stikke (no)
Old English: stingan
Persian: خلاندن (fa) ( xalândan )
Pohnpeian: doakoa
Polabian: ai̯büst pf büst impf
Polish: kłuć (pl)
Portuguese: apunhalar (pt) , esfaquear chinar ( Portugal, colloquial )
Quechua: t'urpuy
Rapa Nui: oka
Rarotongan: oka
Romanian: înjunghia (ro) , străpunge (ro) , a da o lovitură de cuțit
Romansh: stilettar cuntellar
Russian: уда́рить (ru) pf ( udáritʹ ) , коло́ть (ru) impf ( kolótʹ ) , заре́зать (ru) pf ( zarézatʹ ) (to death), заколо́ть (ru) pf ( zakolótʹ ) (to death), прире́зать (ru) pf ( prirézatʹ ) (to death), пырну́ть (ru) pf ( pyrnútʹ ) (low colloquial); проткну́ть (ru) pf ( protknútʹ ) (through), пронзи́ть (ru) pf ( pronzítʹ ) (through), проколо́ть (ru) pf ( prokolótʹ ) (through), проби́ть (ru) pf ( probítʹ ) (through), пропоро́ть (ru) pf ( proporótʹ ) (colloquial; deeply or through)
Sami:
Northern Sami: čugget
Santali: ᱨᱳᱜ ( rok’ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бости
Latin: bosti (sh)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: štapaś
Spanish: apuñalar (es) , acuchillar (es) , ennavajar (es) , clavar (es) , enclavar (es) , estocar (es) , asestar (es) , estoquear (es)
Sranan Tongo: dyuku
Swedish: sticka (sv)
Tagalog: saksak
Tamil: குத்து (ta) ( kuttu )
Thai: แทง (th) ( tɛɛng ) , เสียบ (th) ( sìiap )
Turkish: bıçaklamak (tr) , şişlemek (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: صاپلامق ( saplamak )
Unami: tànkama ( animate-object ) , tànkamën ( inanimate-object )
Vietnamese: đâm (vi)
Welsh: gwanu (cy) , trywanu (cy)
Woiwurrung: borr-gi
Yiddish: שטעכן ( shtekhn )
Zealandic: steke
to thrust in a stabbing motion
to recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object
to cause a sharp painful sensation
to injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander
to pierce folded sheets for the passage of thread or wire
References
Etymology 2
Clipping of stabilizer stabiliser
Noun
stab (plural stabs
( aviation , slang ) stabilizer of an aircraft.
2020 The Boeing 737 Technical Site [2] the original on 23 January 2021 :If the pilots used electric pitch trim, it would only pause MCAS for 5s; to deactivate it you have to switch off the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches.
( computing , slang ) Synonym of stabilizer ( “ part of a computer keyboard ” ) .
Translations
Etymology 3
Adjective
stab (not comparable )
( industrial relations ) Clipping of established 1893 Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia , page 313 :Do you know whether any country offices pay their men by the thousand, or whether they are on stab wages? — I do not know. Some are paid stab wages, but I do not know whether there is much piece-work.
1967 Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry , page 113 :The pressmen were granted a stab wage of 36s for a 60 hour week, and the extras for overtime and Sunday work [ …]
Noun
stab (plural not attested )
( industrial relations ) Clipping of establishment 1892 The British Printer , volume 5, page 42 :[ …] there were 286 overseers and 210 readers occupied in the 501 offices; 2,691 compositors were paid on the stab [ …]
Anagrams
ABTs ATBs ATSB BTAS Bast Bats SATB TBAs TBSA Tabs bast bats tabs
Danish
Etymology
From German Stab
Noun
stab c singular definite staben plural indefinite stabe
staff
Inflection
Lushootseed
Alternative forms
Etymology
From s- tab(a) Proto-Salish *s-tam *s- *tam ( “ thing; what ” )
Pronunciation
Determiner
stab
(interrogative ) what thing?, by what means?
stab əw̓ə tiʔiɬ.What on earth is that?
Noun
stab
thing (plural: stab )
Swedish
Etymology
From German Stab [ 1]
Pronunciation
Noun
stab c
( military ) staff ( establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army ) a stick
Declension
Derived terms
References
^ stab in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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