Where the Romanian word “sărman” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Din bg., scr. siromah, cu schimbare de suf.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (s.m.):
Din bg., scr. siromah, cu schimbare de suf.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Proto-Slavic siromaxъ ← Serbo-Croatian siromah
- In film dialogue
- 18 times per million words · number 2,744 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 3.1 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 199 251 94 123 48 - Swap in a synonym
- nenorocit (Made in Romanian), sărac (Neighbouring Slavic languages), biet (Unknown origin), orfan (Greek)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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