cioară
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of cioară
Derived terms edit
terms derived from cioară
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ cioară in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)