ciucă

See also: ciuca, Ciuca, and Ciucă

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hungarian csuka, from Proto-Slavic *ščùka. Doublet of știucă.

Noun

ciucă f (plural ciuci)

  1. northern pike (Esox lucius)

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Possibly a substratum word.[1] Compare Bulgarian чука (čuka, “rocky hillock, peak”), Albanian çukë (“peak”), Serbo-Croatian čuka (“hilltop”).

Noun

ciucă f (plural ciuci)

  1. a round mountain peak
  2. a habit, hobby, way of being
Declension
Declension of ciucă
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative ciucă ciuca ciuci ciucile
genitive-dative ciuci ciucii ciuci ciucilor
vocative ciucă, ciuco ciucilor

References

  1. ^ Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 237

Further reading

  • ciucă in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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