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les

лес

lȇs · /lêːs/ · masc.

Not to be confused with leš — corpse; dead body; carcass

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NOUN
  1. formal dated coffin
    Les su nosila četvorica prijatelja. — Four friends carried the coffin.
  2. (in geology) loess
    Veliki deo Vojvodine pokriven je lesom. — A large part of Vojvodina is covered with loess.
    Titelski breg je lesna zaravan od lesa. — Titel Hill is a loess plateau.

In the sense 'coffin' the word is bookish and dated and practically unused in everyday speech in Serbia; the words used are kovčeg or mrtvački sanduk. In current usage les usually means 'loess'.

Synonyms:
Declension, masc.
singularplural
Nom.leslesovi
Gen.lesalesova
Dat.lesulesovima
Acc.leslesove
Voc.leselesovi
Ins.lesomlesovima
Loc.lesulesovima
AI Updated 17 October 2026