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barcă
boat /ˈbar.kə/
noun#930 most common
Also: small boat, rowboat
Example sentences
Barca este pe apă.
The boat is on the water.
Copiii se joacă lângă barcă.
The children are playing near the boat.
Am închiriat o barcă pentru o oră.
We rented a boat for an hour.
Pescarii și-au reparat bărcile înainte de furtună.
The fishermen repaired their boats before the storm.
Barca s-a răsturnat în mijlocul lacului, iar pasagerii au înotat până la mal.
The boat capsized in the middle of the lake, and the passengers swam to shore.
Deși barca părea firavă, a rezistat valurilor neașteptat de puternice ale mării dezlănțuite.
Although the boat looked flimsy, it withstood the unexpectedly powerful waves of the raging sea.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | barcă | bărci |
| Genitive | bărci | bărcilor |
| Accusative | barcă | bărci |
| Vocative | barcă | bărci |
Word family
bărcuțălittle boat, dinghy
barcagiuboatman, ferryman
a ambarcato embark, to load onto a boat
ambarcațiunevessel, watercraft
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "barcă" from French "barque" or Italian "barca" during the modernization of its vocabulary in the 18th and 19th centuries, when many Latinate words entered the language through Western Romance rather than directly from Latin. The ultimate source is Late Latin "barca", a term of disputed origin, possibly linked to Greek and Egyptian words for river craft. The same Latin root gave English the poetic word "bark" or "barque" for a sailing ship.
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