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broască
frog /ˈbroaskə/
noun#4260 most common
Also: lock (door lock), toad (used loosely)
Example sentences
Broasca este mică.
The frog is small.
O broască verde stă pe frunză.
A green frog sits on a leaf.
Copiii aleargă după o broască în curte.
The children run after a frog in the yard.
Broasca ușii s-a stricat și nu mai pot încuia camera.
The door lock broke and I can no longer lock the room.
În fiecare vară, broaștele orăcăie lângă lac până noaptea târziu.
Every summer, the frogs croak near the lake until late at night.
Deși broasca țestoasă pare lentă, broasca de baltă sare cu o viteză surprinzătoare printre nuferi.
Although the tortoise seems slow, the pond frog jumps with surprising speed among the water lilies.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | broască | broaște |
| Genitive | broaște | broaște |
| Accusative | broască | broaște |
| Vocative | broască | broaște |
Word family
broscuțălittle frog (diminutive, also an affectionate term for a child)
broscoimale frog or large toad (augmentative)
broscarperson who catches or deals with frogs (rare, dialectal)
broască țestoasătortoise / turtle, literally "shell frog"
Etymology
The origin of "broască" is not settled. Romanian dictionaries generally mark it as uncertain, with some scholars pointing to a pre-Roman substrate word rather than a Latin or Slavic source. The word covers both the animal and a household lock, a secondary sense that most linguists explain as a metaphorical extension: the mechanism was seen as resembling a frog's clamping mouth. No confirmed cognates exist in other Romance languages, since most of them use Latin-derived words for frog instead.
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