cioară
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)
- crow
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person
Declension
Derived terms
Derived terms
References
- cioară in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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