papuc
See also: papuć
Romanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پابوج (pâbuc), پاپوش (pâpûş), from Persian پاپوش (pâ-puš).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈpuk/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -uk
- Hyphenation: pa‧puc
Noun
papuc m (plural papuci)
- slipper
- (by extension, informal) shoe
- (western Transylvania, Banat) fine boot
- (Transylvania) army boot
- (electronics) cable terminal
- (construction) shoe (an iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | papuc | papucul | papuci | papucii | |
genitive-dative | papuc | papucului | papuci | papucilor | |
vocative | papucule | papucilor |
Derived terms
- da papucii
- Dacia papuc
- dormi în papuci
- o lua la papuc
- papucar
- papucaș
- papucărie
- papucel
- papucul doamnei
- sub papuc
Related terms
Further reading
- “papuc”, 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[1], volume 8, part 1, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 80–81
- Lexiconul tehnic român [Romanian technical lexicon] (in Romanian), volume 4, Editura Tehnică, 1952, page 349