Leh

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• IPA^(key): /leɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Leh

1. A city, the co-capital of Ladakh, India.

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from German Leh, perhaps an altered spelling of Löh.
• Borrowed from Khmer.

Leh (plural Lehs)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Leh is the 37125^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 601 individuals. Leh is most common among White (82.36%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (12.31%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Leh”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 416.

• Hel, LHE, LHe, he'l

Leh

1. plural of Loh

From Ottoman Turkish له (leh), from Russian лях (ljax). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *lęxъ.

Leh

1. Pole

• Possessive forms are hypothetical and/or fictional, but the literature. and the 3rd singular and plural, as in " Kuzey kutbu ve yanlız Leh'i." — "North Pole, and its lonely Pole."

• Lehçe