geamparale

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چالپاره (çalpara, “castanet”), from Persian چار پاره (“type of percussion instrument”, literally “four parts”)

Noun

geamparale f pl (plural only)

1. a Romanian folk dance
2. a musical instrument

Declension

declension of geamparale (plural only)

	plural
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(niște) geamparale	geamparalele
genitive/dative	(unor) geamparale	geamparalelor
vocative

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “çalpara”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çalpara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük