măgură

Romanian

Alternative forms

• măgulă, mâglă

Etymology

Origin unknown. Possibly from dialectal măgulă (compare Aromanian mãgulã), from Albanian magulë (“heap”), metathetic form of gamulë, or an expressive creation based on *măc- or *moc-. Other less likely theories included Latin macula or *maculum, or a Proto-Slavic *mogyla. Compare also Greek μαγούλα (magoúla, “hill”) and Latin magulum (“cheek”).

This word has also been associated with the pan-Mediterranean substrate which is allegedly reflected in Basque mokor (“lump of earth”) and Sardinian mogoro (“hill”).

Noun

măgură f (plural măguri)

1. hill, mount, hillock

   Synonym: colină

2. funerary tumulus, mound

   Synonym: tumul

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	măgură	măgura		măguri	măgurile
genitive-dative	măguri	măgurii		măguri	măgurilor
vocative	măgură, măguro			măgurilor

Derived terms

• măgurea

References

• măgură in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• măgură in Alexandru Ciorănescu, Dicționarul etimologic român, Tenerife: Universidad de la Laguna, 1958–66.