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burtă
belly /ˈburtə/
noun#3284 most common
Also: stomach, tummy, paunch
Example sentences
Mă doare burta.
My stomach hurts.
Pisica doarme pe burtă.
The cat sleeps on its belly.
După ce a mâncat prea mult, îl doare burta.
After eating too much, his stomach hurts.
Burta ei rotunjită arăta că sarcina era în ultimele luni.
Her rounded belly showed that the pregnancy was in its final months.
Deși mergea la sală în fiecare zi, burta lui refuza cu încăpățânare să dispară.
Although he went to the gym every day, his belly stubbornly refused to disappear.
Bunica spunea, râzând, că burta ei s-a rotunjit de la atâtea sarmale mâncate de sărbători, nu de la lene.
Grandma said, laughing, that her belly had rounded from all the cabbage rolls eaten over the holidays, not from laziness.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | burtă | burți |
| Genitive | burți | burți |
| Accusative | burtă | burți |
| Vocative | burtă | burți |
Word family
burticălittle belly, tummy (affectionate diminutive)
burtosbig-bellied, paunchy (masculine)
burtoasăbig-bellied, paunchy (feminine)
burtana big-bellied person, colloquial
Etymology
The origin of burtă is not firmly established. Romanian dictionaries generally list it without a confirmed source in Latin or in the neighboring Slavic languages, so its history before the word's appearance in Romanian stays unclear. It belongs to a small set of everyday Romanian words whose roots linguists have not managed to trace with confidence. Because of that uncertainty, no PIE root or firm foreign cognate can be responsibly given.
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