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leš

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "les"

Northern Sami

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Pronunciation

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  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈleʃ/

Verb

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leš

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

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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lȅš m inan (Cyrillic spelling ле̏ш)

  1. carcass
  2. cadaver
  3. corpse
Declension
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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
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from German Lösch.

Noun

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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
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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

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  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

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