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chip
face /ˈkip/
noun#2064 most common
Also: image, likeness (portrait, effigy), way, manner (as in 'în niciun chip'), form, appearance
Example sentences
Are un chip frumos.
She has a beautiful face.
Chipul ei era trist.
Her face was sad.
Pe perete atârnă un chip vechi al bunicului.
An old portrait of grandfather hangs on the wall.
Trebuie să găsim un chip de a rezolva problema.
We must find a way to solve the problem.
În niciun chip nu voi accepta această propunere.
I will not accept this proposal under any circumstances.
Poetul a descris chipul schimbător al mării, ca o oglindă a sufletului uman.
The poet described the sea's changing face, like a mirror of the human soul.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | chip | chipuri |
| Genitive | chipului | chipurilor |
| Accusative | chip | chipuri |
| Vocative | chip | chipuri |
Word family
chipeșhandsome, good-looking
a închipuito imagine, to picture
închipuireimagination, fancy
neînchipuitunimaginable
Etymology
Chip came into Romanian from a Slavic source, most likely Old Church Slavonic chipŭ, meaning 'image' or 'shape'. Romanian kept that core sense of a visible likeness and widened it to cover a person's face, and later an abstract 'way' or 'manner', as in the fixed phrase 'în niciun chip'. Its exact path into the language is not fully settled, so dictionaries usually list the source simply as Slavic.
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