Where the Romanian word “sărac” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Din bg., scr. sirak.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (s.m.):
Din bg., scr. sirak.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Neighbouring Slavic languages (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Bulgarian сирак ← Serbo-Croatian sirak
- In film dialogue
- 58 times per million words · number 1,187 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 52 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 475 157 203 163 134 - Swap in a synonym
- puțin (Unknown origin), simplu (French), prost (Old Slavic), nenorocit (Made in Romanian), gol (Old Slavic), slab (Old Slavic), biet (Unknown origin), modest (Learned Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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