stab

Etymology 1
First attested in Scottish English (compare 🇨🇬,, ), from , probably a variant of , , , from , , cognate with 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Supposed by some to derive from ; supposed by others to be from a word.

Noun

 * 1) An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
 * 2) A wound made by stabbing.
 * 3) Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
 * 4)  An attempt.
 * 5) Criticism.
 * 6)  A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
 * a horn stab
 * 1) A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
 * 1) Criticism.
 * 2)  A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
 * a horn stab
 * 1) A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
 * 1) A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.

Translations

 * Arabic: طَعْن
 * Assamese: খোঁচা, হেঁচা
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: (general),  (with knife)
 * Czech: bodnutí
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: puñalada, coitelada
 * German:
 * Ilocano: bagkong
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: rop, sá
 * Italian:
 * Latgalian: dūrt
 * Latin: ictus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: durti
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: خنجر زدن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: (general),, acuchillamiento
 * Sranan Tongo: dyuku
 * Sundanese: tewek
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: saksak


 * Arabic: طَعْنَة
 * Bulgarian: прободна рана
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: bodnutí
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pistohaava
 * Galician: puñalada, coitelada
 * German:
 * Ilocano: bagkong, bangig
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: t'uksiy
 * Russian: колотая ра́на
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: saksak


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: puñalada
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: спроба


 * Dutch: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: критика

Verb



 * 1)  To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
 * 2)  To thrust in a stabbing motion.
 * 3)  To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger.
 * 4)  To cause a sharp, painful sensation.
 * 5)  To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
 * 6)  To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
 * 7)  To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
 * 8)  To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
 * 1)  To cause a sharp, painful sensation.
 * 2)  To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
 * 3)  To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
 * 4)  To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
 * 5)  To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
 * 1)  To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
 * 2)  To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
 * 3)  To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
 * 1)  To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.

Translations

 * Aklanon: buno'
 * Arabic: طَعَنَ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: bıcaqlamaq
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏘᎭ
 * Chickasaw: baafa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 插
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: pobodat,, probodnout
 * Danish: stikke
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, frapper d'un coup de couteau
 * Galician:, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νύσσω
 * Hindi: भोंकना
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: sáigh, rop
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kashubian: pchac
 * Latin: ico, pungo, confodio, fodio, perfodio, transfodio, traicio, perfigo, perforo
 * Lithuanian: badyti
 * Maori: oka, pūmuka
 * Marathi: भोसकणे
 * Northern Sami: čugget
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: stingan
 * Old Javanese: suduk
 * Persian:
 * Polabian: ai̯büst, büst
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, esfaquear, chinar
 * Quechua: t'urpuy
 * Rapa Nui: oka
 * Romanian:, , a da o lovitură de cuțit
 * Romansch: stilettar, cuntellar
 * Russian: ,
 * Santali: ᱨᱳᱜ
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бости
 * Roman:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: štapaś
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: dyuku
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: saksak
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: שטעכן
 * Zealandic: steke


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chickasaw: baafa
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 2
or.

Noun

 * 1)  The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) staff

Alternative forms

 * stab̓

Etymology
From, from ("what?"; "something"), from

Determiner

 * 1) (interrogative) what thing?, by what means?

Noun

 * 1) thing (plural: stab)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a staff
 * 2) a stick