шлях

• šlach — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Via Polish szlach (now more commonly szlak) or directly from Middle Low German slach (“beat, strike, hit”). Cognates include Ukrainian шлях (šljax)

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шлях • (šljax) m inan (genitive шля́ху, nominative plural шляхі́, genitive plural шляхо́ў)

1. way, path, road

   Synonyms: даро́га (daróha), пуць (pucʹ)

• → Yiddish: שליאַך (shlyakh)

• “шлях” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

• шляхъ (šljax) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Borrowed from Ukrainian шлях (šljax) or Belarusian шлях (šljax), cf. Polish szlach or szlak.

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шлях • (šljax) m inan (genitive шля́ха, nominative plural шляхи́ or шля́хи, genitive plural шляхо́в or шля́хов)

1. (historical, Ukraine, Southern Russia) path, steppe road
   • 1898, Александр Куприн [Aleksandr I. Kuprin], “III”, in Олеся; English translation from John Middleton Murry, transl., The Witch (Olyessia), 1916:

     Поблагодари́в стару́ху (на что она́ не обрати́ла ни мале́йшего внима́ния), я спроси́л её́, как мне вы́йти на шлях.

     Poblagodarív starúxu (na što oná ne obratíla ni maléjševo vnimánija), ja sprosíl jejó, kak mne výjti na šljax.

     Thanking the old woman, though she paid me not the least attention, I asked her how I could get back to the road.

Via Polish szlach (now more commonly szlak) or directly from Middle Low German slach (“beat, strike, hit”). For the semantics compare би́та доро́га (býta doróha), from бити (byty, “to beat”), дорога (doroha, “way, road”). Cognates include Belarusian шлях (šljax).

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шлях • (šljax) m inan (genitive шля́ху, nominative plural шляхи́, genitive plural шляхі́в)

1. way, path

   Synonyms: доро́га (doróha), путь (putʹ)

• Черво́ний Шлях m inan (Červónyj Šljax, toponym)

• → Yiddish: שליאַך (shlyakh)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “шлях”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “шлях”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “шлях”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
• “шлях”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)