Leh

See also: leh and łeh

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Proper noun

Leh

1. A town and capital of Ladakh, India.

Translations

town and capital of Ladakh, India

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 列城 (zh) (Lièchéng)

• Marathi: लेह n (leh)
• Tibetan: གླེ (gle), སླེ (sle)
• Urdu: لیہہ m (leh)

Etymology 2

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from German Leh, perhaps an altered spelling of Löh.
• Borrowed from Khmer.

Proper noun

Leh (plural Lehs)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Leh is the 37125^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 601 individuals. Leh is most common among White (82.36%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (12.31%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Leh”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 416.

Anagrams

• Hel, LHE, LHe, he'l

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Leh

1. plural of Loh

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish له (leh), from Russian лях (ljax). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *lęxъ.

Proper noun

Leh

1. Pole

Usage notes

• Possessive forms are hypothetical and/or fictional, but the literature. and the 3rd singular and plural, as in " Kuzey kutbu ve yanlız Leh'i." — "North Pole, and its lonely Pole."

Declension

    declension of Leh

	singular	plural
nominative	Leh	Lehler / Leh'ler
accusative	Leh'i	Lehleri / Leh'leri
dative	Leh'e	Lehlere / Leh'lere
locative	Leh'de	Lehlerde / Leh'lerde
ablative	Leh'den	Lehlerden / Leh'lerden
genitive	Leh'in	Lehlerin / Leh'lerin

    possessive of Leh

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Leh'im	Lehlerim / Leh'lerim
senin (your)	Leh'in	Lehlerin / Leh'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	Leh'i	Lehleri / Leh'leri
bizim (our)	Leh'imiz	Lehlerimiz / Leh'lerimiz
sizin (your)	Leh'iniz	Lehleriniz / Leh'leriniz
onların (their)	Leh'i / Lehleri / Leh'leri	Lehleri / Leh'leri

Derived terms

• Lehçe