лях

Russian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic *ляхъ (*ljaxŭ), nominative plural ляси (ljasi), accusative plural ляхы (ljaxy). See Polish Lach for more.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [lʲax]

Noun

лях • (ljax) m anim (genitive ля́ха, nominative plural ля́хи, genitive plural ля́хов, feminine ля́шка)

  1. (historical, now sometimes slightly derogatory or ironic) Pole, Polish man, Polack

Declension
Declension of поля́к (anim masc-form velar-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative поля́к
polják		 поля́ки
poljáki
genitive поля́ка
poljáka		 поля́ков
poljákov
dative поля́ку
poljáku		 поля́кам
poljákam
accusative поля́ка
poljáka		 поля́ков
poljákov
instrumental поля́ком
poljákom		 поля́ками
poljákami
prepositional поля́ке
poljáke		 поля́ках
poljákax
Synonyms

Descendants
  • → Kipchak: լեհ (leh), լեխ (lex, “Pole”), Լեհ (Leh, “Poland”) (Armeno-Kipchak)
  • → Karaim: leh / лех (“Pole”)
  • → Crimean Tatar: Leh / Лех (“Poland”)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: له‎ (leh, “Poland; Pole”)

Further reading
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1972), “лях”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume III, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress, page 553
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