плета

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plesti.

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плета́ • (pletá) first-singular present indicative, impf

1. (transitive)
   1. to knit, to plait, to crochet (a garment, a cloth, a piece of textile)
   2. to braid, to entwist, to intertwine (a knitting pattern)
   3. to twist (a rope), to net (a web), to weave (a woven basket)
   4. (figurative) to concoct, to make up, to plot (intrigues, schemes, made-up stories)

      плета сплетни ― pleta spletni ― to concoct plots

2. (intransitive)
   1. to braid, to tress, to weave

      плета в ъгъла ― pleta v ǎgǎla ― to be knitting in the corner

   2. (dialectal, figurative) to roam, to wander around, to mess around
3. (reflexive with си)
   1. to knit, to plait for oneself

      плета си нова шапка ― pleta si nova šapka ― to knit a new hat for oneself

   2. (figurative) to jumble, to twist one's tongue
4. (reflexive with се)
   1. to entangle, to snarl (of vegetation, threads, in 3p.)
   2. to get complicated, to botch up (of plan, process, in 3p.)

• пле́ткам (plétkam) (semelfactive)

• плот (plot, “hedge”) (o-grade variant of плет)

• “плета”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “плета”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1901) “плетѫ́, -е́шь; пле́тохъ; пл́елъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ.‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 342
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “плета”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 342
• “плести”, in Старобългарски речник (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024

• лепта (lepta), палет (palet)

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• Hyphenation: пле‧та
• Rhymes: -ɛta

плета • (pleta)

1. count plural of плет m (plet)