Where the Romanian word “tavan” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -e):
Din tc. tavan.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -uri):
Din tc. tavan.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish تاوان
- In film dialogue
- 9.2 times per million words · number 4,314 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 13 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 2.5 9.7 23 37 33 - Swap in a synonym
- pod (Old Slavic), plafon (French), lenevi (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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