English
lapti
Noun
lapti (uncountable)
- A pair of the old traditional East Slavic (especially Russian) bast shoes, an obsolete traditional footwear of forest areas of Northern Europe, formerly worn by poorer members of the Finnic peoples, Balts, and East Slavs.
Translations
bast shoes
- Bashkir: сабата (sabata)
- Belarusian: ла́паць m (lápacʹ) (single), ла́пці m pl (lápci) (pair)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 椴樹皮鞋, 椴树皮鞋 (duànshù píxié)
- Czech: láptě pl
- Finnish: virsu (fi), virsut pl
- French: lapti (fr) f
- Japanese: ラプティ (raputi)
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- Karelian: virzu, virzut pl
- Kazakh: шәрке (şärke)
- Polish: łapcie pl, postoły pl (dated)
- Russian: ла́поть (ru) m (lápotʹ) (single), ла́пти (ru) m pl (lápti) (pair)
- Tatar: чабата (tt) (çabata)
- Ukrainian: лича́к (uk) m (lyčák) (single), личаки́ m pl (lyčaký) (pair), ла́поть m (lápotʹ) (single), ла́пті m pl (lápti) (pair), пості́л m (postíl) (single), посто́ли m pl (postóly) (pair)
- Veps: virzu, virzud pl
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Synonyms
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin lac, lactem. Compare Romanian lapte.
Noun
lapti n (plural lãpturi, or m lãptsã)
- milk
Related terms
See also