peklo

See also: pękło and пекло

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛklo]
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Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (pitch). Cognate with Polish piekło.

Noun

peklo n

  1. hell
    Antonyms: nebe, ráj
    Kníže PekelThe Prince of Darkness
    mít z pekla štěstíto be dead lucky
    mít peklo na zemito experience hell on earth
    udělat mu ze života pekloto make someone's life a living hell
    udělat pekloto raise hell
    Nastalo učiněné peklo.All hell broke loose.
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

peklo

  1. neuter singular past active participle of péct

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

peklo (Cyrillic spelling пекло)

  1. neuter singular active past participle of peći

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (pitch). Cognate with Slovene pekel, Bulgarian пъкъл (pǎkǎl) and Serbo-Croatian па̀као/pàkao. Akin to Latin pix (pitch, tar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛkɫɔ/

Noun

peklo n

  1. hell

Declension

Declension of peklo
(pattern mesto)
singularplural
nominativepeklopeklá
genitivepeklapekiel
dativepeklupeklám
accusativepeklopeklá
locativepeklepeklách
instrumentalpeklompeklami

Derived terms

Further reading

  • peklo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025