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miam
yum (an interjection expressing delight over food) /ˈmjam/
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Also: nom nom, mmm, tasty
Example sentences
Miam! Îmi place mult prăjitura asta.
Yum! I really like this cake.
Copilul spune „miam” de fiecare dată când mănâncă ciocolată.
The child says "yum" every time he eats chocolate.
Bunica a făcut plăcinte, iar noi toți am zis „miam, miam”!
Grandma made pies, and we all said "yum, yum"!
A postat o poză cu pizza și a scris doar „miam” dedesubt.
She posted a picture of pizza and just wrote "yum" underneath it.
La mirosul de cozonac proaspăt, mi-a scăpat un „miam” involuntar.
At the smell of fresh sweet bread, an involuntary "yum" slipped out of me.
Deși pare o interjecție copilărească, „miam” apare tot mai des și în vorbirea adulților, mai ales ca reacție rapidă la o poză cu mâncare pe rețelele sociale.
Although it seems like a childish interjection, "miam" appears more and more often in adult speech too, especially as a quick reaction to a food photo on social media.
Word family
miam-miamyum-yum (emphatic, reduplicated form)
Etymology
Miam is a colloquial Romanian interjection that imitates the sound of enjoying food, roughly equivalent to English yum. It matches the French interjection miam almost exactly, which is unsurprising given Romania's long history of borrowing from French, though short, sound-symbolic words like this can also arise independently in unrelated languages. It is a modern, informal usage, common in speech and in captions under food photos, rather than a word inherited from Latin or found in older dictionaries.
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