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rare #18636

nounmasculineanimatecountableold-fashioned

1.
Pole, Polish person
В самом сердце Росси, в Москве, в Кремле, как страшная опухоль, сидели ляхи.
At the very heart of Russia, in Moscow, in the Kremlin, like a dreadful cancer, sat the Poles.

Usage info

Word used to describe the Poles during the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)

Лях приехал торговать зерном на ярмарку.
A Pole came to the fair to trade grain.
Древние летописи часто упоминают ляхов.
Ancient chronicles often mention the Poles.
В той крепости жили ляхи и русские.
Poles and Russians lived in that fortress.