Where the Romanian word “marfă” comes from
From Hungarian.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (s.f.):
Din magh. marha "vită".
→ Hungarian · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Hungarian (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Hungarian marha ← goh marchat ← Late Latin marcātus ← la-cla mercātus
- In film dialogue
- 46 times per million words · number 1,406 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 53 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 74 44 69 72 42 - Swap in a synonym
- bun (Inherited Latin), frumos (Inherited Latin), mișto (Other languages), formidabil (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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