bubă

See also: buba and búbá

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a substrate word, perhaps from or related to Ruthenian or Ukrainian буба (buba, “swelling”) (cf. Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian буба (buba, “insect pupa, bug, silkworm”), also Albanian bubë), or alternatively from a Vulgar Latin *buba from Late Latin būbō, būbōnēs, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn), which would make it a doublet of bubon. It may more likely be simply an expressive creation, similar to words in other languages with the same senses. Compare also Galician bouba (“blister”), French bube, Spanish buba, búa (“pustule, blister, swelling, scab, tumor”).

Noun

bubă f (plural bube)

1. swelling, bump
2. abscess, boil, lesion

   Synonyms: furuncul, abces, buboi

3. (figuratively) a minor wound or injury, such as a cut

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bubă	buba		bube	bubele
genitive-dative	bube	bubei		bube	bubelor
vocative	bubă, bubo			bubelor

See also

• coptură
• plagă
• rană

References

• Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 202