Leh

See also: leh and łeh

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Proper noun

Leh

1. A town and capital of Ladakh, India.

Translations

town and capital of Ladakh, India

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 列城 (zh) (Lièchéng)

• Hindi: लेह (hi) (leh)
• Marathi: लेह n (leh)
• Tibetan: གླེ (gle), སླེ (sle)
• Urdu: لیہہ m (leh)

Etymology 2

Two main origins:

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

Proper noun

Leh (plural Lehs)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• 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.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Hel, LHE, LHe, he'l

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Leh

1. plural of Loh

Turkish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Leh

1. Pole

Usage notes

• 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."

Declension

Declension of Leh

	singular	plural
nominative	Leh	Lehler
accusative	Leh'i	Lehleri
dative	Leh'e	Lehlere
locative	Leh'de	Lehlerde
ablative	Leh'den	Lehlerden
genitive	Leh'in	Lehlerin

Possessive forms of Leh

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Leh'im	Lehlerim Leh'lerim
senin (your)	Leh'in	Lehlerin Leh'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	Leh'i	Lehleri Leh'leri
bizim (our)	Leh'imiz	Lehlerimiz Leh'lerimiz
sizin (your)	Leh'iniz	Lehleriniz Leh'leriniz
onların (their)	Leh'i Lehleri Leh'leri	Lehleri Leh'leri

Derived terms

• Lehçe