cioară
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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]
Declension of cioară
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)