Learn Romanian › dulap
dulap
wardrobe / cupboard /duˈlap/
noun#1868 most common
Also: cabinet, closet
Example sentences
Dulapul este mare.
The wardrobe is big.
Pun hainele în dulap.
I put the clothes in the wardrobe.
Am cumpărat un dulap nou pentru bucătărie.
I bought a new cabinet for the kitchen.
Cheia dulapului s-a pierdut ieri.
The key to the cabinet got lost yesterday.
Dulapurile din bucătărie trebuiau reparate de mult timp.
The kitchen cabinets had needed repairing for a long time.
Dacă aș fi știut că dulapul acela masiv nu încape pe ușă, aș fi ales altul mai mic.
If I had known that massive wardrobe wouldn't fit through the door, I would have chosen a smaller one.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dulap | dulapuri |
| Genitive | dulapului | dulapurilor |
| Accusative | dulap | dulapuri |
| Vocative | dulapule | dulapurilor |
Word family
dulăpiorsmall cabinet or drawer
dulap de hainewardrobe/closet for clothes
dulap de bucătăriekitchen cabinet
dulapuriplural form, cabinets/wardrobes
Etymology
Dulap entered Romanian from Ottoman Turkish dolap, meaning cupboard or wheel. The Turkish word itself traces back through Persian to an Arabic root tied to wheels and waterwheels, a sense preserved in some Balkan uses. Romanian borrowed it during centuries of Ottoman administrative and commercial contact, and it kept only the furniture sense. It is a loanword, not an inherited Latin term, so it has no Indo-European root within Romanian's core vocabulary.
Learn Romanian the way that sticks.
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,027 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,027 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free