Where the Romanian word “sârmă” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Din ngr. sirma, tc. sirma.
→ Greek · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Greek (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Greek σύρμα ← Ottoman Turkish صرمه
- In film dialogue
- 7.8 times per million words · number 4,775 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 7.0 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 9.8 5.1 6.8 28 23
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
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