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 (indefinite plural plehra, definite singular plehu)

  1. dung, manure; organic fertilizer
  2. filth
  3. (plural) sweepings, trash, garbage
  4. (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. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 332.
  2. Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎, volume I. Lehnwörter, München: Verlag 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 pleh plehovi
genitive pleha plehova
dative plehu plehovima
accusative pleh plehove
vocative pleše / plehu plehovi
locative plehu plehovima
instrumental plehom plehovima

References
  • “pleh” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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