szlachta
See also: Szlachta
Polish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German slahte (“genus, kind, species, race”) (compare German Geschlecht).
Pronunciation
Noun
szlachta f
Declension
Declension of szlachta
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Old East Slavic: шлѧхта (šlęxta)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шляхта”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “szlachta”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 550
Portuguese
Noun
szlachta f (uncountable)
- Szlachta (the nobility of Poland, Slovakia and Lithuania)