# плета
## Bulgarian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic плести (plesti), from Proto-Slavic *plesti.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [plɛˈtɤ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: пле‧та

### Verb

плета́ • (pletá) first-singular present indicative, impf
* (transitive)
** to knit, to plait, to crochet (a garment, a cloth, a piece of textile)
** to braid, to entwist, to intertwine (a knitting pattern)
** to twist (a rope), to net (a web), to weave (a woven basket)
** (figurative) to concoct, to make up, to plot (intrigues, schemes, made-up stories)
    плета сплетни ― pleta spletni ― to concoct plots
* (intransitive)
** to braid, to tress, to weave
    плета в ъгъла ― pleta v ǎgǎla ― to be knitting [while sitting] in the corner
** (dialectal, figurative) to roam, to wander around, to mess around
* (reflexive with си)
** to knit, to plait for oneself
    плета си нова шапка ― pleta si nova šapka ― to knit a new hat for oneself
** (figurative) to jumble, to twist one's tongue
* (reflexive with се)
** to entangle, to snarl (of vegetation, threads, in 3p.)
** to get complicated, to botch up (of plan, process, in 3p.)

#### Derived terms

* пле́ткам (plétkam) (semelfactive)
* вплета pf (vpleta), вплитам impf (vplitam)
* доплета pf (dopleta), доплитам impf (doplitam)
* заплета pf (zapleta), заплитам impf (zaplitam)
* изплета pf (izpleta), изплитам impf (izplitam)
* надплета pf (nadpleta), надплитам impf (nadplitam)
* наплета pf (napleta), наплитам impf (naplitam)
* оплета pf (opleta), оплитам impf (oplitam)
* плет (plet), пле́тище (plétište, “hedge, fence”)
* плета́р m (pletár), плета́рка f (pletárka) (dialectal, agent nouns)
* плета́ч m (pletáč), плета́чка f (pletáčka) (agent nouns, standard)
** плета́чен (pletáčen, “knitting”)
** плета́чница (pletáčnica, “knitting workshop/room”)
* пле́тва (plétva, “knitting”) (dialectal)
* пле́тен (pléten, deverbal adjective)
** пле́тени́к (pléteník, “woven grid, pattern”) (dialectal)
** плетени́ца (pleteníca), пле́тенка (plétenka, “knitwork”)
* плетиво́ (pletivó, “knitting”) (resultant noun)
* пле́тка (plétka, “stitch, knitting pattern”)
* плетня́ (pletnjá, “knitwork”) (dialectal)
* плетуха (pletuha) (hypothetical)
** плету́шка (pletúška, “braided ornament”)
* подплета pf (podpleta), подплитам impf (podplitam)
* поплета pf (popleta), поплитам impf (poplitam)
* преплета pf (prepleta), преплитам impf (preplitam)
* проплета pf (propleta), проплитам impf (proplitam)
* разплета pf (razpleta), разплитам impf (razplitam)
* сплета pf (spleta), сплитам impf (splitam)
* уплета pf (upleta), уплитам impf (uplitam) (dialectal)

#### Related terms

* плот (plot, “hedge”) (o-grade variant of плет)

### References

* “плета”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
* “плета”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
* Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1901) “плетѫ́, -е́шь; пле́тохъ; пл́елъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 342
* Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “плета”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 342
* “плести”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025

### Anagrams

* лепта (lepta), палет (palet)

## Macedonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈplɛta]
* Hyphenation: пле‧та
* Rhymes: -ɛta

### Noun

плета • (pleta)
* count plural of плет m (plet)