oža
Appearance
Karelian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *osa. Cognate with Finnish osa.
Noun
[edit]oža (genitive ožan, partitive ožua)
Derived terms
[edit]Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the same stem as the verb ost (“to smell”) (q.v.), with an extra ending -yā: *uod-ya > oža.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oža f (4th declension)
- (sense) smell (the capacity to perceive various chemical substances in suspension in the air)
- jutīga oža ― sensitive (sense of) smell
- ožas orgāns, nervs, šūnas ― olfactory organ, nerve, cells
- ožas analizators ― olfactory system
- sunim smalka oža ― the dog (has) a fine (sense of) smell
- noteikt ēdiena kvalitāti pēc ožas ― to determine the quality of food by (one's sense of) smell
- putnu sunim jābūt ar labu ožu, lai viņš putnu pēdas un pašus putnus tālu saostu un ātri atrastu ― a bird dog must have a good (sense of) smell, so that he can smell and quickly find a bird's track or even the bird itslef
- (rare) smell, odor
- komisijas locekļi sapulcējās, lai dotu pēdējo novērtējumu konserviem... tika ņemti vērā izstrādājumu garša, oža, konsistence un ārējais noformējums ― the commission members met to give the last assessment on the canned food... the taste, smell, consistence and external form of the products were taken into account
Declension
[edit]Declension of oža (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | oža | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | ožu | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | ožas | — |
dative (datīvs) | ožai | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | ožu | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | ožā | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | oža | — |
Synonyms
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[edit]See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ost”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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- lv:Smell