urdă

See also: urda, urða, Urða, -urda, and Urda

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a Dacian substratum word, akin to Albanian urdhë, or more likely derived/borrowed from it. Other theories include Turkish hurde (“yeast”) (as several shepherding-related terms derive from Turkish), or a Thracian term *urida, akin to Ancient Greek ὀρός (orós, “whey”). The word is also found in Aromanian as urdã and Megleno-Romanian as urdă.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈur.də]

Noun

urdă f (uncountable)

  1. a type of unripened whey cheese, similar to ricotta.

Declension

Declension of urdă
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative urdă urda
genitive-dative urde urdei
vocative urdă, urdo

See also

References

  1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/urd%C4%83
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