lichva

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Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech lichva, from Proto-Slavic *lixva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: lich‧va

Noun

lichva f

  1. usury
    Synonyms: lichvářství, úžera

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • lichva”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • lichva”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • lichva”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

lichva f

  1. bovine cattle

Further reading

  • lichva”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024