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maină
machine (archaic term, replaced by modern "mașină") /ˈmaj.nə/
noun#1173 most common
Also: apparatus, contraption
Example sentences
Am văzut o maină veche în muzeu.
I saw an old machine in the museum.
Maina nu mai funcționează.
The machine no longer works.
În fabrică erau multe maini zgomotoase.
In the factory there were many noisy machines.
Roata mainii s-a rupt chiar înainte de drum.
The machine's wheel broke right before the journey.
Cronicarul pomenește de o maină adusă de peste mări, spre uimirea tuturor.
The chronicler mentions a machine brought from overseas, to everyone's amazement.
Deși maina fusese cândva mândria satului, țăranii au înlocuit-o cu unelte mai noi de îndată ce acestea au apărut.
Although the machine had once been the pride of the village, the peasants replaced it with newer tools as soon as they appeared.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | maină | maini |
| Genitive | maini | mainilor |
| Accusative | maină | maini |
| Vocative | maină | maini |
Word family
mașinămachine, car (the everyday modern word)
mașinăriemachinery, apparatus
mecanicmechanic; mechanicalmecanismmechanismEtymology
Maină is an archaic and regional Romanian noun meaning machine. It was gradually displaced by the modern form mașină and is now marked obsolete in historical dictionaries. Romanian inherited the word from Western European languages, tracing back through Latin machina to Greek mēkhanē. It survives mainly in older texts and dialect records rather than everyday speech.
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