cioară

See also: cioarã

Romanian

Etymology

Uncertain. 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

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃjo̯a.rə/

Noun

cioară f (plural ciori)

  1. crow
  2. (slang, derogatory) slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy/Bohemian. Less usual, a slur for Negro

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References

  1. Romanian Explanatory Dictionary http://dexonline.ro/definitie/cioară
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