pleavă

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плѣвы (plěvy), from Proto-Slavic *pelva. Compare Macedonian плева (pleva), Serbo-Croatian плева.

Noun

pleavă f (uncountable)

  1. chaff
  2. (figuratively) worthless thing

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative pleavă pleava
genitive-dative pleve plevei
vocative pleavă, pleavo