leš

See also: Appendix:Variations of "les"

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈleʃ/

Verb

leš

  1. inflection of leat:
    1. third-person singular potential
    2. potential connegative

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lêʃ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاش (leş), from Persian لاش (lâš). First attested in the 18th century[1].

Noun

lȅš m inan (Cyrillic spelling ле̏ш)

  1. carcass
  2. cadaver
  3. corpse
Declension
Declension of leš
singular plural
nominative lȅš lèševi
genitive lèša lèšēvā
dative lešu leševima
accusative leš leševe
vocative lešu leševi
locative lešu leševima
instrumental lešom leševima
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Lösch.

Noun

lȅš m inan (Cyrillic spelling ле̏ш)

  1. slag, impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore, vitrified cinders.
    Synonyms: cȅnera, drȍzga, trȍska, šljȁka, zgȕra
Declension
Declension of leš
singular plural
nominative lȅš lèševi
genitive lèša lèšēvā
dative lešu leševima
accusative leš leševe
vocative lešu leševi
locative lešu leševima
instrumental lešom leševima

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2016), “leš”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I: A – Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 547

Further reading

  • “leš”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
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