pleh

See also: pléh

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • Tosk: plehër
  • Gheg: plehën
    • definite singular: plehni
    • plural: plehna

Etymology

A derivative of plah ‘to cover’[1]. Alternatively a back-formation from pluralia tantum plehën, plehër, from Bulgarian плева (pleva) ‘weed, wild plant’, from Proto-Slavic *plěva ‘membrane’.[2][3]

Noun

pleh m (indefinite plural plehra, definite singular plehu)

  1. dung, manure; organic fertilizer
  2. filth
  3. (plural) sweepings, trash, garbage
  4. (plural) despicable person

Hyponyms

  • pleh i gjelbër ‘green manure’
  • pleh pylli ‘forest litter’
  • pleh shpendësh ‘bird guano’
  • plehra kimike ‘chemical fertilizer’

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 332.
  2. ↑ Xhelal Ylli, Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen, vol. 1: Lehnwörter (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 196.
  3. ↑ 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)

  1. (regional) sheet metal
  2. (regional) shallow pan

Declension

References

  • “pleh” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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