bikses

See also: biksēs

Latvian
Garās bikses
Īsās bikses
Sporta bikses

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German büxe, bükse, or from Old Frisian büxe, bükse; cf. German dialectal buxe, Swedish byxa, byxor, first mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries. The original meaning was “goat leather pants” (cf. Middle High German buck “male goat,” “buck”), later extended to all kinds of pants.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [biksɛs]
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Noun

bikses f (5th declension)

  1. pants, trousers; shorts (outer garment that covers the lower body from the waist down, with two long or short legs)
    garās bikses ― (long) pants
    īsās bikses ― short pants, shorts
    sporta bikses ― shorts (lit. sports pants)
    slēpošanas bikses ― ski pants
    bikšu dibens ― pant bottom
    bikšu kabatas ― pant pockets
    zīda bikses ― silk pants
    pidžamas bikses ― pajama pants
    valkāt bikses ― to wear pants
    viņam mugurā bija sūnu zaļš krekls un pelēkas bikses ― he was wearing (lit. on his back there were) a moss green shirt and gray pants

Declension
Declension of bikses (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) — bikses
accusative (akuzatīvs) — bikses
genitive (ģenitīvs) — bikšu
dative (datīvs) — biksēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) — biksēm
locative (lokatīvs) — biksēs
vocative (vokatīvs) — bikses

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “bikses”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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