basculă

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bascule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /basˈku.lə/
• Rhymes: -ulə
• Hyphenation: bas‧cu‧lă

Noun

basculă f (plural bascule)

1. lever/hinge mechanism
2. (firearms) bascule (steel block on which the barrels are hinged) (in a hunting rifle)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	basculă	bascula		bascule	basculele
genitive-dative	bascule	basculei		bascule	basculelor
vocative	basculă, basculo			basculelor

Derived terms

• mare sculă de basculă

References

• basculă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)