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hol
hallway / entrance hall /hol/
noun#1990 most common
Also: foyer, lobby, corridor
Example sentences
Holul este mare.
The hallway is big.
Punem pantofii în hol.
We put the shoes in the hallway.
Am așteptat zece minute în hol.
I waited ten minutes in the hallway.
Holul blocului mirosea a vopsea proaspătă.
The building's hallway smelled of fresh paint.
Lumina slabă din hol făcea umbrele să pară și mai lungi.
The dim light in the hallway made the shadows seem even longer.
În holul cu tavan înalt, pașii ei răsunau ca într-o catedrală părăsită.
In the high-ceilinged hallway, her footsteps echoed as if in an abandoned cathedral.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | hol | holuri |
| Genitive | holului | holurilor |
| Accusative | hol | holuri |
| Vocative | hol | holuri |
Word family
hol de intrareentrance hall
antreuvestibule, small entrance foyer (near-synonym)
coridorcorridor, passage (related space)vestibulvestibule (more formal synonym)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "hol" in the late 19th or early 20th century from German "Halle" and French "hall" as apartment buildings and the vocabulary of modern housing spread through the region. The French word was itself a borrowing from English "hall". All three trace back to a Germanic word for a large covered room.
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