burtă

See also: burta and burtā

Romanian

Etymology

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *umbulita (“small navel”), clipped from Vulgar Latin *umbulicus, from Latin umbilīcus (“navel”), with [um] being reanalyzed as the feminine indefinite article o at some stage as same is evidenced by related Romanian buric. The latter may have provoked such analogy. On grounds of phonetic difficulties with considered Albanian bark, rather unlikely a substrate word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbur.tə]

• Audio:

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Noun

burtă f (plural burți)

1. belly

   Synonyms: pântece, abdomen, vintre

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	burtă	burta		burți	burțile
genitive-dative	burți	burții		burți	burților
vocative	burtă, burto			burților

Derived terms

• burtos

See also

• stomac