zârnă

See also: zarna, zarnā, and żarna

Romanian

Etymology

Disputed. May be from a pre-Roman language, such as Dacian or Thracian, comparisons having been made to the Dacian name for the black hellebore Helleborus niger, Prodiarna (diarna → zârnă). Compare Sorin Paliga, et al. The Romanian Academy in its official dictionary, the Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române (1998), however, derives the word from Proto-Slavic *zьrno (“berry, grain”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɨr.nə/

Noun

niște zârne

zârnă f (plural zârne)

1. Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum), also known as sunberry.

   Synonym: solan

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	zârnă	zârna		zârne	zârnele
genitive-dative	zârne	zârnei		zârne	zârnelor
vocative	zârnă, zârno			zârnelor

References

• zârnă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)