grāmata

Latvian

noun
Definitions
  • book a printed and bound publication with more than 48 pages
  • book one of the parts in which a larger work, usually a novel, is divided
  • book, register series of usually blank pages bound or stapled together, in which something important is to write
  • (dated sense) ability to read and write
  • (dated sense) letter, written message

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic грамота (writing, alphabet, document, ability to read and write).

Origin

Old East Slavic

грамота

Gloss

writing, alphabet, document, ability to read and write

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