столб

From Proto-Slavic *stъlbъ.

• IPA^(key): [stɔɫp]

столб • (stolb) m (diminutive столпче)

1. post, pole, pillar, column

• столбъ (stolb) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stъlbъ. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic стлъба (stlŭba, “summit”), Lithuanian stul̃bas, Latvian stulbs, Old Norse stolpi (“pillar”).

• IPA^(key): [stoɫp]

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• Homophone: столп (stolp)

столб • (stolb) m inan (genitive столба́, nominative plural столбы́, genitive plural столбо́в, related adjective столбово́й, diminutive сто́лбик)

1. post, pole, pillar, column

   фона́рный столб ― fonárnyj stolb ― lamppost

   засты́ть как соляно́й столб ― zastýtʹ kak soljanój stolb ― to freeze as a pillar of salt

• столби́ть impf (stolbítʹ), застолби́ть pf (zastolbítʹ)
• остолбене́ть pf (ostolbenétʹ)

• → Kildin Sami: стуэлльп (stuell’p)
• → Yakut: остуолба (ostuolba)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “столб”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress