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iarbă
grass /ˈjar.bə/
noun#1775 most common
Also: herb, weed (slang, marijuana)
Example sentences
Iarba este verde.
The grass is green.
Copiii se joacă pe iarbă.
The children are playing on the grass.
Am tuns iarba din curte ieri.
I mowed the grass in the yard yesterday.
După ploaie, iarba mirosea proaspăt.
After the rain, the grass smelled fresh.
Vaca pășea liniștită prin iarba înaltă a pajiștii.
The cow grazed calmly through the meadow's tall grass.
Ierburile de leac culese din munte erau folosite de bunica pentru ceaiuri.
The medicinal herbs gathered from the mountain were used by grandmother for teas.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | iarbă | ierburi |
| Genitive | ierbii | ierburilor |
| Accusative | iarbă | ierburi |
| Vocative | iarbă | ierburi |
Word family
ierbosgrassy, covered in grass
ierbarherbarium; a collector of pressed plants
a se înierbato become overgrown with grass
ierburi de leacmedicinal herbs
Etymology
Iarbă comes from Latin herba, meaning grass or plant. The word passed down through spoken Latin into Romanian with regular sound changes, including the shift of initial he- to ia-. Its deeper origin before Latin is not firmly established, so no further root can be given with confidence.
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