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boală
illness /ˈbo̯alə/
noun#1031 most common
Also: disease, sickness
Example sentences
Am o boală.
I have an illness.
Boala lui este gravă.
His illness is serious.
Ea a fost la spital din cauza unei boli grave.
She was in the hospital because of a serious illness.
Medicii încă nu au găsit un tratament pentru această boală rară.
Doctors still have not found a treatment for this rare disease.
Bolile cardiovasculare rămân principala cauză de deces în multe țări.
Cardiovascular diseases remain the main cause of death in many countries.
Gravitatea bolii a fost subestimată de autorități, iar consecințele s-au dovedit devastatoare.
The severity of the illness was underestimated by the authorities, and the consequences proved devastating.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | boală | boli |
| Genitive | boli | bolilor |
| Accusative | boală | boli |
| Vocative | boală | boli |
Word family
bolnavsick, ill
a (se) îmbolnăvito fall ill, to get sick
bolnăviciossickly, frail
bolnavăsick (feminine form)
Etymology
Boală entered Romanian from a South Slavic source related to the root seen in Old Church Slavonic bolěti, "to hurt, to be sick." Romanian absorbed a large layer of Slavic vocabulary through centuries of contact with neighboring Slavic-speaking populations, and words for illness and the body were part of that exchange. The Romanian feminine noun suffix -ă was added to the borrowed root to fit native declension patterns.
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