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baltă
pond /ˈbal.tə/
noun#1164 most common
Also: puddle, pool, marsh
Example sentences
Copilul sare în baltă.
The child jumps in the puddle.
Este o baltă mare lângă drum.
There is a big pond near the road.
Rațele înoată liniștite pe baltă.
The ducks swim calmly on the pond.
Apa de ploaie s-a adunat într-o baltă în mijlocul curții.
Rainwater gathered into a puddle in the middle of the yard.
Bălțile din lunca Dunării atrag mulți pescari primăvara.
The ponds in the Danube floodplain attract many fishermen in spring.
Copiii se jucau veseli pe malul bălții, aruncând pietricele în apa tulbure.
The children played happily on the bank of the pond, throwing pebbles into the murky water.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | baltă | bălți |
| Genitive | bălți | bălților |
| Accusative | baltă | bălți |
| Vocative | baltă | bălți |
Word family
băltoacăpuddle, small dirty pool
a băltito stagnate, become swampy
băltosswampy, marshy, waterlogged
băltirethe act of pooling or stagnating
Etymology
Baltă denotes a pond, puddle, or shallow marshy pool. Linguists trace it not to Latin but to a pre-Roman substrate word spoken in the Balkans before the Roman conquest. Its clearest relative is Albanian baltë, meaning mud or mire, which suggests both languages inherited the word from a common source rather than one borrowing it from the other. Similar-sounding Slavic words like Bulgarian blato exist, but their exact relationship to the Romanian and Albanian forms remains debated among scholars.
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