Where the Romanian word “liliac” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
Din tc. leylâk. Cf. bg. liuleak.
→ Turkish · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish لیلاق ← Arabic لَيْلَك ← Persian لیلک
- In film dialogue
- 12 times per million words · number 3,687 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 25 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 22 9.7 18 26 16 - Swap in a synonym
- șoarece (Inherited Latin), salcâm (Turkish), mălin (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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