pekle

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See also: peklē and пекле

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

pekle

  1. locative singular of peklo

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian пе́кло (péklo, hell), dialectal пекл (pekl) (from Old Church Slavonic пькълъ (pĭkŭlŭ, tar), from Latin picula (tar)). Its ending may also have been influenced by elle. It is first mentioned in 18th-century dictionaries. In some dialects, it also means “abyss.”[1]

Noun

pekle f (5th declension)

  1. (theology) hell
    tumšs kā peklēdark as in hell

Declension

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pekle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

pekle (Cyrillic spelling пекле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of peći