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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *lixva.
Pronunciation
Noun
ли́хва • (líhva) f
- (finance) interest (the price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed)
Declension
Anagrams
Macedonian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lixva.
Pronunciation
Noun
лихва • (lihva) f
- usury
- (archaic, economics) interest
Declension
Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *lixva, from a Germanic language, likely Gothic *𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍈𐌰 (*leiƕa); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *līhwaną.
Noun
лихва • (lixva) f
- interest
Declension
Declension of лихва (hard a-stem)
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lixva.
Pronunciation
Noun
лихва́ • (lixvá) f inan (genitive лихвы́, nominative plural лихвы́, genitive plural лихв)
- (dated) interest, profit (still used in expressions)
- отплати́ть с лихво́й ― otplatítʹ s lixvój ― to repay with interest
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lixva (Russian лихва́ (lixvá), Polish lichwa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lîxʋa/
- Hyphenation: лих‧ва
Noun
ли̏хва f (Latin spelling lȉhva)
- usury
Declension
References
- “лихва” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Ukrainian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lixva.
Pronunciation
Noun
лихва́ or ли́хва • (lyxvá or lýxva) f inan (genitive лихви́ or ли́хви, uncountable)
- (dated) interest, profit
- (dated) usury
Declension
Declension of лихва́, ли́хва (inan sg-only hard fem-form accent-d/a)
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singular
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| nominative
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лихва́, ли́хва
lyxvá, lýxva
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| genitive
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лихви́, ли́хви
lyxvý, lýxvy
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| dative
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лихві́, ли́хві
lyxví, lýxvi
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| accusative
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лихву́, ли́хву
lyxvú, lýxvu
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| instrumental
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лихво́ю, ли́хвою
lyxvóju, lýxvoju
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| locative
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лихві́, ли́хві
lyxví, lýxvi
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| vocative
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ли́хво
lýxvo
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Derived terms
Further reading
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “лихва”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- “лихва”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)