pleavă

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pleavă¹

Where it comes from

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

noun pleavă · pleava · pleve · plevei · pleavo

  1. feminine, uncountable chaff
  2. feminine, figuratively, uncountable worthless thing

Pleavă²

Where it comes from

From pleavă.

proper noun lui Pleavă

  1. masculine a surname

In English

  • chaff inedible parts of grain plant

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"pleavă." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/pleav%C4%83.

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@misc{pleava_2026,
  title = {pleavă},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/pleav%C4%83},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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