pleh

See also: pléh

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • Tosk: plehër
  • Gheg: plehën
    • definite singular: plehni
    • plural: plehna

Etymology

A derivative of plah (“to cover”).[1] Alternatively a back-formation from pluralia tantum plehën, plehër, from Bulgarian плева (pleva, “weed, wild plant”), from Proto-Slavic *plěva (“membrane”).[2][3]

Noun

pleh m (plural plehra, definite plehu)

  1. dung, manure; organic fertilizer
  2. filth
  3. (in the plural) sweepings, trash, garbage
  4. (in the plural) despicable person

Hyponyms
  • pleh i gjelbër (“green manure”)
  • pleh pylli (“forest litter”)
  • pleh shpendësh (“bird guano”)
  • plehra kimike (“chemical fertilizer”)

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “pleh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 332
  2. Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎, volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 196
  3. Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus, Denmark: Aarhus UP, 1992), 132.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Blech.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plêx/
  • Hyphenation: pleh

Noun

plȅh m (Cyrillic spelling пле̏х)

  1. (regional) sheet metal
  2. (regional) shallow pan

Declension
Declension of pleh
singular plural
nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) plehovi
genitive pleha plehova
dative plehu plehovima
accusative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) plehove
vocative pleše / plehu plehovi
locative plehu plehovima
instrumental plehom plehovima

References
  • “pleh” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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