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hartă

map /ˈhar.tə/

noun#1747 most common

Also: chart

Example sentences

Am o hartă.
I have a map.
Uită-te pe hartă ca să găsești drumul.
Look at the map to find the way.
Profesorul a arătat elevilor harta Europei.
The teacher showed the students the map of Europe.
Fără hartă, ne-am fi rătăcit cu siguranță în munți.
Without a map, we would certainly have gotten lost in the mountains.
Cercetătorii au realizat o hartă detaliată a fundului oceanic.
The researchers produced a detailed map of the ocean floor.
Harta genetică a acestei populații dezvăluie migrații străvechi neștiute până acum.
The genetic map of this population reveals ancient migrations unknown until now.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativehartahărțile
Genitivehărțiihărților
Accusativehartahărțile
Vocativehartohărților

Word family

hărticicălittle map (diminutive)
hartă rutierăroad map
hartă mutăblank map (used in schools for labeling exercises)
hartă mentalămental map

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "hartă" in the modern era from Modern Greek χάρτα (kharta) and Ottoman Turkish harita, both meaning map. Those words trace back to Greek khartēs, which originally meant a sheet of papyrus or paper rather than a geographic drawing. Over time the sense narrowed in Romanian to the specific meaning of a map. Because this word entered through a Greek-Turkish borrowing chain rather than through inherited Latin or Indo-European vocabulary, no reconstructed root applies.

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