pliaj

Esperanto

Adjective

pliaj

1. plural of plia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pliage.

Noun

pliaj n (uncountable)

1. folding

Declension

declension of pliaj (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pliaj	pliajul
genitive/dative	(unui) pliaj	pliajului
vocative	pliajule

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *bl-ᴬ (“forehead”); compare Proto-Tai *praːkᴰ (“id”), whence Thai ผาก (pàak, “id”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˡiə̯˥˧/

Noun

pliaj

1. (used in compounds) the forehead

Derived terms

• hau pliaj (“the forehead”)
• hauv pliaj (“the forehead”)
• plim pliaj (“to tilt the forehead back, to throw the head back with the forehead turned upward”)

 

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 251.