Where the Romanian word “treabă” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -uri):
Din sl. trĕba.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -i):
Din sl. trĕba.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (pl. -e):
Din sl. trĕba.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic трѣба ← Proto-Slavic terba
- In film dialogue
- 564 times per million words · number 194 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 12 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 404 291 239 153 167 - Swap in a synonym
- bun (Inherited Latin), lucru (Made in Romanian), problemă (French), probabil (French), muncă (Old Slavic), activitate (French), afacere (Made in Romanian), obicei (Neighbouring Slavic languages)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
trebui, nevoie, război, prea, primi, prieten, drum, opri, iubi, vreme, trăi, sfânt