dovleac
Romanian
Alternative forms
- довляк (dovleac) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دولك (devlek), dialectally pronounced dövlek.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /doˈvle̯ak/
- Rhymes: -ak
- Hyphenation: do‧vleac
Noun
dovleac m (plural dovleci)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | dovleac | dovleacul | dovleci | dovlecii | |
| genitive-dative | dovleac | dovleacului | dovleci | dovlecilor | |
| vocative | dovleacule | dovlecilor | |||
Derived terms
References
- “dovleac”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
- ^ Emil Suciu, “Contacts linguistiques : turc et roumain”, Romanische Sprachgeschichte: Ein internationales Handbuch zur Geschichte der romanischen Sprachen, vol. 2, eds. Gerhard Ernst et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006), 1673-6.