Where the Romanian word “leș” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -uri):
Din tc. leș.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish لش ← Persian لاش
- In film dialogue
- 2.0 times per million words · number 9,983 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 11 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 24 36 43 4.2 2.8 - Swap in a synonym
- cadavru (French), hoit (Hungarian), mortăciune (Inherited Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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