Where the Romanian word “raft” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
Din tc. raf, bg. raft.
→ Turkish · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish راف ← Arabic رَفّ
- In film dialogue
- 10 times per million words · number 4,025 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 5.5 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 0.5 4.5 13 20 - Swap in a synonym
- poliță (Old Slavic), corlată (Hungarian), harnașament (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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