Where the Romanian word “haiduc” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
Din bg., scr. hajduk.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '96- Wiktionary says
- Turkish (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish حیدود ← Hungarian hajdú
- In film dialogue
- under once per million · number 17,199 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 18 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 11 15 6.9 14 64 - Swap in a synonym
- jandarm (French), polițai (German), pandur (Neighbouring Slavic languages), pribeag (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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