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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Malay gabus (soft wood from Alstonia scholaris)

Noun

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gabus (plural gabus-gabus)

  1. (botany) cork
    1. the dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water
      1. the phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material

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gabus (active menggabus, passive digabus)

  1. (transitive) to sharpen with a cork
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Etymology 2

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Seekor gabus.

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Noun

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gabus

  1. snakehead murrel (Channa striata)
    Synonyms: aruan, rating, tobang
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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Derived from góbti (to wrap, cover, seize, snatch); see there for more.[1]

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Adjective

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gabùs m (feminine gabì, neuter gabù) stress pattern 4

  1. gifted, clever, skillful
  2. (dialectal) greedy

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “gabus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 160
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