плекати

Borrowed from Romanian apleca (“to suckle”), from Latin applicō (“to apply, to attach”).^[1]

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плека́ти • (plekáty) impf (transitive)

1. to nurture (to raise and support the development of with affectionate care)
2. (figuratively, by extension) to nurture (to encourage, especially the growth or development of something)
3. to cherish

   плека́ти наді́ю (в се́рці) ― plekáty nadíju (v sérci) ― to cherish a hope (in one's heart)

4. (dialectal) to breastfeed, to nurse, to suckle

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2022), “плекати”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 13 (підку́са – покі́рно), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN, page 275
• “плекати”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1975), “плекати”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (П – Поїсти), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 574
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “плекати”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “плекати”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• “плекати”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “плекати”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)