Where the Romanian word “geantă” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
Din tc. çanta.
→ Turkish · DEX '96- Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish چانطه
- In film dialogue
- 53 times per million words · number 1,261 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 1.9 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 4.0 3.3 9.3 6.8 - Swap in a synonym
- poșetă (French), servietă (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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