Where the Romanian word “fildeș” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Din tc. fildiși.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -uri):
Din tc. fildiși.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish فیل دیشی
- In film dialogue
- 2.9 times per million words · number 8,232 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 11 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 5.1 4.5 10 14 - Swap in a synonym
- elefant (French), defensă (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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