Where the Romanian word “grăbi” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
Din bg. grabja (se).
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '96- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic грабити ← Proto-Slavic grabiti
- In film dialogue
- 176 times per million words · number 503 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 12 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 133 184 145 133 145 - Swap in a synonym
- zori (Old Slavic), accelera (French), devansa (French), iuți (Made in Romanian), pripi (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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