mămăligă
See also: mamaliga
Romanian
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editEtymology
editUncertain. Possibly a substrate word or an expressive creation based on mamă or Latin mamilla (representing the idea of nourishment) + -ică.
Alternately, it can be inherited from Latin [Term?], akin to Italian meliga (“maize, sorghum”), from Latin milium (“millet”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmămăligă f (plural mămăligi)
Declension
editDeclension of mămăligă
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) mămăligă | mămăliga | (niște) mămăligi | mămăligile |
genitive/dative | (unei) mămăligi | mămăligii | (unor) mămăligi | mămăligilor |
vocative | mămăligă, mămăligo | mămăligilor |
Descendants
edit- → Yiddish: מאַמעליגע (mamelige)
See also
editCategories:
- Romanian terms with unknown etymologies
- Romanian terms derived from substrate languages
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian terms suffixed with -ică
- Romanian terms inherited from Latin
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian terms with audio links
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian feminine nouns
- ro:Foods