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cos
basket /ˈkoʃ/
noun#5560 most common
Also: chimney, pimple
Example sentences
Am un coș cu mere.
I have a basket with apples.
Fumul iese pe coș.
The smoke comes out through the chimney.
Are un coș pe frunte.
He has a pimple on his forehead.
Pune pâinea în coșul de pe masă.
Put the bread in the basket on the table.
Coșul fabricii scotea fum negru în fiecare dimineață.
The factory chimney let out black smoke every morning.
Deși folosea creme speciale, adolescentul tot se confrunta cu coșuri pe obraji.
Even though he used special creams, the teenager still struggled with pimples on his cheeks.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | coș | coșuri |
| Genitive | coșului | coșurilor |
| Accusative | coș | coșuri |
| Vocative | coșule | coșurilor |
Word family
coșulețlittle basket
coșarchimney sweep
coșuribaskets, chimneys, or pimples (plural)
acoperi coșulto cap the chimney
Etymology
Coș entered Romanian from Slavic, part of a large layer of everyday household vocabulary that Romanian absorbed through centuries of contact with Slavic-speaking neighbors. The original sense was a woven container, a basket. From that concrete meaning Romanian extended the word to a chimney, since both are hollow, open structures, and later to a pimple, likely from the small raised, hollow-looking bump on skin.
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