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This is a list of English words of Romanian origin. hora – a type of circle dance originating in the Balkans but also found in other countries. Its English etymology includes Hebrew, Romanian and Turkish. mineriad – term used to name violent interventions of miners
According to Romanian historian Ion I. Russu [ro], there are supposedly over 160 Romanian words of Dacian origin, representing, together with derivates, 10% of the basic Romanian vocabulary. [1] Below is a list of Romanian words believed by early scholars to be of Dacian origin, which have also been attributed to other origins.
Romanian has inherited about 2000 Latin words through Vulgar Latin, sometimes referred to as Danubian Latin in this context, that form the essential part of the lexis and without them communication would not be possible. 500 of these words are found in all other Romance languages, and they include prepositions and conjunctions (ex: cu, de, pe, spre), numerals (ex: unu, doi, trei), pronouns (ex ...
Curvă is an insult meaning whore or prostitute, or, more generally, a sexually promiscuous woman. Synonyms or near-synonyms are târfă, traseistă, or pizdă. The words zdreanță, boarfă and ștoarfă, coardă are all used to refer to a woman of low moral fiber. A pimp is usually referred to as a pește, which literally translated to "fish".
Pages in category "Romanian words and phrases" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Caloian;
Map of the geographical distribution of attested placenames with the -dava suffix, a Dacian word meaning "settlement" or "fort." This article contains a list of reconstructed words of the ancient Dacian language. They have been restored by some linguists from attested place and personal names (toponyms and anthroponyms) from the historical ...
The Romanian dialect from Bucharest is standard Romanian (from the region of Muntenia, part of the historical Wallachia). Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; endonym: limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə] ⓘ, or românește [romɨˈneʃte], lit.'in Romanian') is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
The extent of this borrowing is such that some scholars once mistakenly viewed Romanian as a Slavic language. [32] The influence of Romania's Slavic neighbors on the language continued. The Russian influence was intensified in Bessarabia after it was handed over [33] to the Russian Empire and becoming a Soviet Republic.