Where the Romanian word “ceafă” comes from
Of unknown origin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -e):
Cf. alb. čafë.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -i):
Cf. alb. čafë.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Substrate (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Albanian qafë
- In film dialogue
- 9.3 times per million words · number 4,294 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 2.3 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 27 26 41 25 - Swap in a synonym
- niciodată (Made in Romanian), bate (Inherited Latin), bogat (Old Slavic), gras (Inherited Latin), influent (French), îngrășa (Inherited Latin), obez (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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