Vlach
[vlɑːk]noun
Vlach is a noun meaning “A Wallachian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-L-A-C-H and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Vlach is Vlachs.
What does Vlach mean?
noun
- 1
A Wallachian.
- 2
A Romanian.
- 3
Any member of an Eastern Romance speaking group, including Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians.
- 4
Any member of a Polish ethnographic group (subgroup of Silesians) living around the towns of Cieszyn and Skoczów
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Vlach?
- [vlɑːk]
- [vlæk]
Vlach has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Vlach
- Vlachs plural
- Vlax
- Wallach
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Vlach?
Vlach appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Vlach come from?
From Proto-Slavic *volxъ (“speaker of a Romance language”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“non-Germanic foreigner, Celt; later Roman”). Presumably introduced into Slavic around the 7th century, but first recorded only in the 11th century in Byzantine Greek. In English used as a synonym of "Wallachian" from the 19th century. The word is etymologically distantly related to Wales/Welsh, Walloon, and Gaul. Doublet of Gaul and wealh.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).