name
Meaning 1
Nobility of Poland, and Lithuania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Szlachta
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/ˈʃlæxta/
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noun
Meaning 2
A legally privileged noble class in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, plural, plural-only
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Polish szlachta. See there for more.
From Polish szlachta.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: շլյախտա (šlyaxta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Belarusian: шля́хта (šljáxta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Bulgarian: шля́хта (šljáhta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Czech: šlachta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Estonian: šlahta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- French: szlachta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Georgian: შლიახტა (šliaxṭa) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- German: Szlachta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Japanese: シュラフタ (shurafuta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Japanese: シラフタ (shirafuta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Japanese: シュリャーフタ (shuryāfuta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Korean: 슐라흐타 (syullaheuta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Latvian: šļahta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Lithuanian: šlėkta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Macedonian: шлахта (šlahta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Old East Slavic: шлѧхта (šlęxta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Polish: szlachta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Portuguese: szlachta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Romanian: șleahtă — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Russian: шля́хта (šljáxta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Serbo-Croatian: шља̏хта — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Serbo-Croatian: šljȁhta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Slovak: šľachta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Slovene: šlahta — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
- Ukrainian: шля́хта (šljáxta) — nobility of Poland, and Lithuania
Real reading context