barză

• bardăș, bardoș (regional, Oltenia)

Compare Aromanian bardzu (“white (of horses and mules)”): both it and the Romanian word may derive from Albanian bardhë (“white”), or are akin to it. Alternatively, the Romanian word may derive from a pre-Roman substrate of the Balkans, possibly from or via Dacian, from Proto-Indo-European *bhereg- (“white”).

Another theory, though somewhat unlikely, suggests that its origin is a Vulgar Latin root *gardea, from Latin ardea (compare Spanish garza (“heron”), Portuguese garça, also French barge (“godwit”)). The confusion of g and b is somewhat unusual, but may be explained as a Balkan influence. Other cases in Romanian include limbă, rug, negură, întreba (compare also Sardinian bula, from Latin gula) [1].

A third proposal is borrowing from a Dacian word meaning "stork", derived from a Proto-Indo-European root *sr̥ǵos, also reflected in e.g. English stork, Ancient Greek πελαργός (pelargós).[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.zə/

barză f (plural berze)

1. stork

• cocostârc (rare)

• barză-albă
• barză-neagră
• bărzoi
• ciocul-berzei
• pliscul-berzei

• barz

barză

1. feminine singular of barz

• ciconiidă
• ciconiiforme