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cizmă
boot /ˈtʃiz.mə/
noun#3882 most common
Also: wellington boot, riding boot
Example sentences
Cizma este neagră.
The boot is black.
Îmi cumpăr cizme noi de iarnă.
I'm buying myself new winter boots.
Purtam cizme de cauciuc când am plecat la pescuit.
I wore rubber boots when I went fishing.
Cizmele ei erau pline de noroi după plimbarea prin pădure.
Her boots were covered in mud after the walk through the forest.
Fermierul și-a curățat cizmele înainte de a intra în casă, ca să nu murdărească podeaua.
The farmer cleaned his boots before going into the house, so as not to dirty the floor.
Deși cizma de piele fusese cândva simbolul unei epoci, acum zăcea uitată în podul casei bunicilor, martoră tăcută a unor vremuri apuse.
Though the leather boot had once been the symbol of an era, it now lay forgotten in the grandparents' attic, a silent witness to bygone times.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cizmă | cizme |
| Genitive | cizmei | cizmelor |
| Accusative | cizmă | cizme |
| Vocative | cizmo | cizmelor |
Word family
cizmarbootmaker, cobbler
cizmărieshoemaker's shop or trade
cizmulițălittle boot (diminutive)
încizmatwearing boots, booted
Etymology
Cizmă entered Romanian from Ottoman Turkish çizme, meaning boot, during the centuries of Ottoman political and economic influence in the region. It belongs to a large layer of Turkish loanwords that entered Romanian mainly through trade, administration, and everyday material culture rather than through Latin or Slavic channels. The same Turkish word spread across the Balkans and into Hungary, which is why so many neighboring languages share a nearly identical term.
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