leluja

See also: lelują

Finnish

Noun

leluja

1. partitive plural of lelu

Polish

Etymology

See lilia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɛˈlu.ja/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [lʲɛˈlʲu.ja]

• Rhymes: -uja
• Syllabification: le‧lu‧ja

Noun

leluja f

1. Archaic form of lilia.
2. (ethnology) motive used in folk art in the shape of a lily
3. (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl) inept person

Declension

Declension of leluja

	singular	plural
nominative	leluja	leluje
genitive	lelui	leluj
dative	lelui	lelujom
accusative	leluję	leluje
instrumental	lelują	lelujami
locative	lelui	lelujach
vocative	lelujo	leluje

Further reading

• leluja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• leluja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Saloni (1908) “leluja”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 336

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

leluja (Cyrillic spelling лелуја)

1. third-person singular present of lelujati

Silesian

Alternative forms

• lelija

Etymology

Borrowed from German Lilie. See English lily for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛˈlu.ja/

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• Rhymes: -uja
• Syllabification: le‧lu‧ja

Noun

leluja f

1. lily (flower in the genus Lilium)
2. inept person

References

• Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “leluja”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 157