cioară
Appearance
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italian dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cioară f (plural ciori)
- crow
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | cioară | cioara | ciori | ciorile | |
genitive-dative | ciori | ciorii | ciori | ciorilor | |
vocative | cioară, cioaro | ciorilor |
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from cioară
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ cioară in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)