cioară

See also: cioara and cioarã

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italian dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃo̯a.rə/

Noun

cioară f (plural ciori)

  1. crow
  2. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person

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References

  1. cioară in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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