stână

Unknown. Possibly an early borrowing from Proto-Slavic *stanъ (“lodging”). Compare Bulgarian стан (stan, “camp”), Serbo-Croatian stȃn (“apartment”)); Albanian stan and Greek στάνη (stáni), also borrowings from the Proto-Slavic.

The phonetics of the word show it has been in Romanian a few centuries before most of the vocabulary borrowed from Slavic languages. As such, some linguists argue it could be instead a Balkan substrate word, cognate to Albanian shtazë (“animal”).

stână f (plural stâne)

1. a summertime settlement of shepherds, consisting of the shepherds' hut, the sheepfold, and the milking area (strungă)
2. hut (of a shepherd)
3. sheepfold

• → Hungarian: esztena

• Academia Română (2010), "stână" in Micul dicționar academic, second edition, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic