леха

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lě̄xà, whence also Old Church Slavonic лѣха (lěxa).

• IPA^(key): [lɛˈxa]

леха́ • (lehá) f (diminutive лехи́ца)

1. bed for plants, garden plot (а raised shaped area of soil (such as a quadrangle, ellipse, etc.), convenient for planting and watering vegetables or flowers)

   Засадих една леха́ пипер ― Zasadih edna lehá piper ― I planted a pepper bed

   Имам пет лехи́ домати ― Imam pet lehí domati ― I have five beds of tomatoes

   Леха́ със зюмбюл ― Lehá sǎs zjumbjul ― Hyacinth bed

   • 2000, Св. Тоника, “Чуй ме, Дилмано”:

     Лягай, Стояне! Утре кой ще стане - лехата с пипера кой ще прокопай?

     Ljagaj, Stojane! Utre koj šte stane - lehata s pipera koj šte prokopaj?

     Get to bed, Stoyan! Who's going to get up tomorrow and dig out the pepper-bed?

2. unit of horticulture

   Coordinate terms: увърт (uvǎrt), вретен (vreten)

• ля́ха (ljáha), ля́шица (ljášica) — Eastern dialects
• ле́а (léa) — Western dialects, with elided -х-

• лехувам (lehuvam, “to form plant beds”) (causative-iterative)
• наляша pf (naljaša), наляшвам impf (naljašvam, “to divide in rows”) (dialectal)
• Лехово (Lehovo), Лешие (Lešie) (toponyms)
• ле́шина (léšina), ле́хище (léhište) (augmentative)

• “леха”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “леха”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “лѣха́”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 34
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “леха”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 378
• “лѣха”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025

Inherited from Proto-Nakh *lexaᶰ.

леха • (lexa)

1. to look for, to seek

• лијѐха (ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lě̄xà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láišāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lóyseh₂, from *leys-.

• IPA^(key): /lěːxa/

ле́ха f (Latin spelling léha)

1. Ekavian form of ле́ја