Vlach Definition

vläKH
noun
A member of a people forming the principal ethnic group of Romania, also located in small populations in other parts of the Balkan Peninsula.
American Heritage
adjective

Walachian.

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Vlach

Noun

Singular:
Vlach
Plural:
vlachs

Origin of Vlach

  • From Bulgarian vlakh Serbo-Croatian vlah both ultimately from a Germanic term referring to Celts and by extension to Romanized and Latin-speaking peoples in general Old English Wealh foreigner, Celt Welsh

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vlach Sentence Examples

  • In Transylvania, however, the common peril evoked by the Turkish incursion and a simultaneous rising of the Vlach peasantry had knit together the jarring interests of Magyars, Saxons and Szeklers, a union which, under the national hero, the voivode Janos Hunyadi, was destined for a while to turn the tide of war.

  • The landless younger sons of the gentry and the Servian and Vlach immigrants provided him with excellent and practically inexhaustible military material.

  • The Greeks had in all some 7000 men, Suliotes, Albanians, armatoli from Rumelia, and some irregular Bulgarian and Vlach cavalry.

  • In winter, when great numbers of Vlach herdsmen take up their quarters in the town, its population exceeds that of Larissa.

  • Northern Aetolia remains a desolate region, inhabited mainly by Vlach shepherds.

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Words Starting With

VVLVLA

Words Ending With

HCHACH

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