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oală
pot (cooking pot) /ˈo̯alə/
noun#5292 most common
Also: pan, cookware vessel
Example sentences
Oala este pe masă.
The pot is on the table.
Pun apă în oală.
I put water in the pot.
Mama gătește supa într-o oală mare.
Mom cooks the soup in a big pot.
Am cumpărat o oală nouă de la piață.
I bought a new pot at the market.
Oala în care am fiert ciorba s-a spart ieri.
The pot in which I boiled the soup broke yesterday.
Se spune despre ei că se potrivesc ca oala cu capacul.
People say they fit together like a pot and its lid.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | oală | oale |
| Genitive | oalei | oalelor |
| Accusative | oală | oale |
| Vocative | oală | oalelor |
Word family
olițăsmall pot
olarpotter
olăriepottery, pottery craft
oalepots (plural)
Etymology
The word comes from Latin "olla", meaning pot or jar, a common vessel word across the Roman world. Romanian kept the core noun almost unchanged while local sound shifts turned the stressed "o" into the diphthong "oa". The word survived in everyday kitchen vocabulary, unlike many Latin terms replaced by Slavic or other borrowings in Romanian.
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