mazăre

See also: mazare, mazaré, and Mazăre

Romanian

Perhaps from Thracian *μαζελα (*mazela),^[1] eventually from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵʰ-elo (“small bean”). Due to phonetic difficulties regarding [u], less likely from Proto-Albanian *mādzula, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵʰ-ulo (“small bean”). Compare Aromanian madzãri (“peas”); see also the related Albanian modhull (“vetchling, yellow vetchling, vetch”), as well as Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “Old World bean”).

mazăre f (uncountable)

^ Diculescu, Constantin (1922), Die Gepiden - Forschung zur Geschichte Daziens im frühen Mittelalter und zur Vorgeschichte des rumänischen Volkes, Leipzig: Kabitsch, p. 207