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murdar
dirty /murˈdar/
adjective#1324 most common
Also: filthy, unclean, corrupt (figurative, as in dirty money)
Example sentences
Mâinile mele sunt murdare.
My hands are dirty.
Cămașa lui este murdară de noroi.
His shirt is dirty with mud.
Copiii au venit acasă cu hainele murdare după ce s-au jucat afară.
The children came home with dirty clothes after playing outside.
Nu pot să cred cât de murdar este apartamentul după petrecere.
I can't believe how dirty the apartment is after the party.
Politicianul a fost acuzat că a folosit bani murdari pentru a-și finanța campania.
The politician was accused of using dirty money to fund his campaign.
Deși părea un om integru, se zvonea că avea afaceri murdare în umbra puterii.
Although he seemed like an honest man, it was rumored that he had dirty dealings in the shadow of power.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | murdar | murdari |
| Genitive | murdar | murdari |
| Accusative | murdar | murdari |
| Vocative | murdar | murdari |
Word family
Etymology
Murdar entered Romanian from Ottoman Turkish murdar, meaning unclean or impure, a term long used for meat or objects considered ritually unfit. Turkish took the word from Persian mordâr, meaning carrion or corpse. The Persian word traces back to an old Iranian word for dead, built on a very old Indo-European root for dying. Romanian picked up the term during centuries of Ottoman contact in the region, and it settled in as an everyday word for dirty.
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