pleavă

See also: pleava and Pleavă

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плѣвы (plěvy), from Proto-Slavic *pelva. Compare Macedonian плева (pleva), Serbo-Croatian плева.

Noun

pleavă f (uncountable)

  1. chaff
  2. (figuratively) worthless thing

Declension

Declension of pleavă
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative pleavă pleava
genitive-dative pleve plevei
vocative pleavă, pleavo