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ceașcă
cup (a teacup or coffee cup, typically with a saucer) /ˈtʃaʃkə/
noun#4308 most common
Also: teacup, coffee cup
Example sentences
Vreau o ceașcă de cafea.
I want a cup of coffee.
Ceașca este pe masă.
The cup is on the table.
Am spart ceașca mea preferată ieri.
I broke my favorite cup yesterday.
Bunica păstrează cești vechi de porțelan în vitrină.
Grandma keeps old porcelain cups in the display cabinet.
Aburul se ridica lin din ceașca de ceai lăsată uitată pe pervaz.
The steam rose gently from the cup of tea left forgotten on the windowsill.
Deși ceștile de porțelan fuseseră moștenite de la stră-bunica ei, le folosea zilnic, fără teama că s-ar putea sparge.
Although the porcelain cups had been inherited from her great-grandmother, she used them daily, without fear that they might break.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ceașcă | cești |
| Genitive | ceștii | ceștilor |
| Accusative | ceașcă | cești |
| Vocative | ceașcă | cești |
Word family
ceașcăcup
ceșcuțălittle cup, teacup (diminutive, affectionate)
ceașcă de ceaiteacup / cup of tea
ceașcă de cafeacoffee cup / cup of coffee
Etymology
Ceașcă entered Romanian as a loanword from Ottoman Turkish, tied to the spread of tea and coffee culture through the region under Ottoman influence. It is not a word inherited from Latin, so it stands apart from most core Romanian vocabulary. Balkan languages that shared long contact with Ottoman Turkish show similar words for small drinking vessels, though these may be separate borrowings rather than a single shared line of descent.
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