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Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
A derivative of plah (“to cover”). Alternatively a back-formation from pluralia tantum plehën, plehër, from Bulgarian плева (pleva, “weed, wild plant”), from Proto-Slavic *plěva (“membrane”).
Noun
pleh m (plural plehra, definite plehu)
- dung, manure; organic fertilizer
- filth
- (in the plural) sweepings, trash, garbage
- (in the plural) despicable person
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References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pleh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 332
- ^ Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 196
- ^ Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus, Denmark: Aarhus UP, 1992), 132.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Blech.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plêx/
- Hyphenation: pleh
Noun
plȅh m (Cyrillic spelling пле̏х)
- (regional) sheet metal
- (regional) shallow pan
Declension
References
- “pleh” in Hrvatski jezični portal