șatră

Borrowed from Bulgarian шатра (šatra) or Serbo-Croatian šatra or Hungarian sátor, from Old Church Slavonic шатьръ (šatĭrŭ), of Bulgar origin. Cognate with Turkish çadır (“umbrella”), Persian چادر (čâdar, “tent, umbrella”), ultimately from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra, “shelter”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃa.trə/
• Rhymes: -atrə
• Hyphenation: șa‧tră

șatră f (plural șatre)

1. Roma camp
2. Roma community
3. (archaic) military camp
   • 1667, Dosoftei, Psaltirea în versuri [Metrical psalter]‎^[1], published 1673, folio 150^r (рн҃):

     Є҆дѡ́м꙽ диⷩ҇ ша́трѫ а҆б꙽ѧ̀ а҆щѣ́птѫ.
     Съ вїе и҆змаиⷧ҇ кꙋ ѡ҆а́сте ла́тѫ.

     Edom din șatră abia așteaptă
     Să vie Izmail cu oaste lată.

     Edom in its camp can’t wait
     For Ishmael to come with its mighty army. (Psalms 83:6)

4. (regional) tent in a fair or market
5. (regional) shed
6. (Maramureș) closed patio

• șătrar
• șătraș

• “șatră”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1978), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[2], volume 11, part 1, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 37–38