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curvă
whore /ˈkur.və/
noun#1449 most common
Also: slut, bitch (as an insult), prostitute
Example sentences
Ea este o curvă.
She is a whore.
Vecina mea e o curvă, spun oamenii.
My neighbor is a whore, people say.
În oraș sunt multe curve.
There are many whores in the city.
A făcut-o curvă în fața tuturor.
He called her a whore in front of everyone.
Reputația curvei s-a răspândit repede în tot satul.
The whore's reputation spread quickly through the whole village.
Bătrânii spuneau că strada aceea fusese cândva plină de casele curvelor.
The elders used to say that street had once been full of whorehouses.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | curvă | curve |
| Genitive | curvei | curvelor |
| Accusative | curvă | curve |
| Vocative | curvo | curvelor |
Word family
curvarwhoremonger; promiscuous, philandering
curviewhoredom, loose or promiscuous living
a curvito fornicate, to cheat sexually (regional, dated)
curvăsăriedebauchery, a den of vice
Etymology
Curvă is an old word in Romanian, generally traced to Latin curva, the feminine of curvus, meaning bent or crooked. The link is metaphorical: a morally crooked or deviant woman. The same root spread across the Balkans and into Slavic languages, likely carried by contact with Balkan Romance speakers. Its exact path is debated, and some etymological dictionaries call the origin uncertain.
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