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odihnă
rest /oˈdihnə/
noun#2928 most common
Also: repose, relaxation, leave (vacation)
Example sentences
Am nevoie de odihnă.
I need rest.
Seara, copiii au nevoie de odihnă înainte de somn.
In the evening, children need rest before sleep.
Medicul mi-a recomandat odihnă completă timp de câteva zile.
The doctor recommended complete rest for me for a few days.
Fiecare angajat are dreptul la douăzeci de zile de concediu de odihnă pe an.
Every employee is entitled to twenty days of paid annual leave per year.
Fie-i țărâna ușoară și odihna veșnică!
May the earth rest lightly on him, and eternal rest be his.
Timpul odihnei s-a scurs prea repede înainte de reluarea muncii.
The time of rest passed too quickly before work resumed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | odihnă | odihne |
| Genitive | odihnei | odihnelor |
| Accusative | odihnă | odihne |
| Vocative | odihno | odihnelor |
Word family
a (se) odihnito rest, to have a rest
odihnitrested, refreshed
neodihnitunrested, weary
odihnitorrestful, relaxing
Etymology
Odihnă entered Romanian from a Slavic source related to the verb meaning to breathe or catch one's breath, the same root that gives Russian its word for rest. Old Church Slavonic speakers used a prefixed form of this breathing verb to describe pausing to recover, and Romanian borrowed the resulting noun during centuries of close contact with Slavic-speaking neighbors. Romanian absorbed many such Slavic words for everyday and social life, and odihnă became the standard word for rest.
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