Where the Romanian word “șiret” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (s.n.):
Din tc. șerit.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (adj.):
Din tc. șirret.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish شزیت ← Arabic شَرِيط
- In film dialogue
- 6.5 times per million words · number 5,354 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 28 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 22 31 43 49 29 - Swap in a synonym
- sârmă (Greek), rafinat (Made in Romanian), brandenburg (French), abil (French), șnur (German), descurcăreț (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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