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cioară

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See also: cioara and cioarã

Romanian

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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cioară f (plural ciori)

  1. crow
  2. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person
    Synonyms: țigan, negru

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative cioară cioara ciori ciorile
genitive-dative ciori ciorii ciori ciorilor
vocative cioară, cioaro ciorilor

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ cioară in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)