cabaz
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese cabaz. Compare Catalan cabàs, Old Occitan cabas.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cabaz m (plural cabazes)
Derived terms edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حقه باز (hokkabaz), from Persian حقه باز (“player at cups-and-balls; juggler; pick-pocket; plotter, impostor”), from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “cup of a juggler”).
Noun edit
cabaz m (plural cabazi)
- (Moldavia (region), obsolete) a joker (man)
- 1883, Vasile Alecsandri, Cinel-Cinel:
- Ian să vedem ce-mi mai scrie cabazul cel de Tachi?
- Let's see what that joker of Tachi is writing to me.
Declension edit
Declension of cabaz
Noun edit
cabaz n (plural cabazuri)
- (Moldavia (region), obsolete) a joke, a farce
- 1882, Mihai Eminescu, Timpul[1]:
- Timur avea un hoge caraghioz pe care îl chema Nastratin, identic cu acela ale cărui taclale și cabazuri le-a cules și le-a pus în versuri răposatul Anton Pann.
- Timur had a funny hodja named Nasreddin, identical to the one whose conversations and jokes were collected and put into verses by the late Anton Pann.
Declension edit
Declension of cabaz
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cabaz | cabazul | (niște) cabazuri | cabazurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) cabaz | cabazului | (unor) cabazuri | cabazurilor |
vocative | cabazule | cabazurilor |