لکه

See also: لكه

Bakhtiari

Etymology

Compare Persian (lokke, “cloth”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /leke/

Noun

لکه (leke)

a used cloth

Noun

لکه (loke)

piece, segment

Persian

Alternative forms

لکا (lakâ)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /lak.ˈka/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läk.kʰǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [läk.kʰǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [läk.kʰǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lækʲ.kʰʲé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läk.kʰǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	lakka
Dari reading^?	lakka
Iranian reading^?	lakke
Tajik reading^?	lakka

Noun

لکه • (lakke)

spot, stain

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: ləkə
→ Georgian: ლაქა (laka)
→ Ottoman Turkish: لكه (leke)
- Turkish: leke
- → Armenian: լաքա (lakʻa), լեքե (lekʻe), լաքյա (lakʻya), լէքէ (lēkʻē), լա̈գ^յա̈ (läg^yä), լա̈ք^յա̈ (läkʻ^yä) — dialectological notation, լաքայ (lakʻay) — traditional orthography
- → Bulgarian: леке (leke)
- → Greek: λεκές (lekés)
- → Romanian: lichea

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لکه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul