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papuc
slipper (soft house shoe) /paˈpuk/
noun#4431 most common
Also: wheel clamp / parking boot (slang, for cars), under someone's slipper = henpecked (idiom)
Example sentences
Acesta este un papuc roșu.
This is a red slipper.
Îmi plac papucii aceștia moi.
I like these soft slippers.
Mi-am pierdut un papuc în curte.
I lost a slipper in the yard.
Polițistul i-a pus șoferului papucul la roată pentru parcare neregulamentară.
The officer put the wheel clamp on the driver's wheel for illegal parking.
Bunicul poartă mereu aceiași papuci vechi de lână, chiar și vara.
Grandpa always wears the same old wool slippers, even in summer.
Prietenii glumesc că e sub papucul soției, fiindcă nu ia nicio decizie fără ea.
His friends joke that he's henpecked, because he never makes a decision without her.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | papuc | papuci |
| Genitive | papucului | papucilor |
| Accusative | papuc | papuci |
| Vocative | papucule | papucilor |
Word family
papucslipper
papucelsmall slipper (diminutive)
papucarslipper maker or seller (archaic/dialectal)
a fi sub papucto be henpecked, dominated by one's spouse
Etymology
Papuc entered Romanian from Turkish papuç during the centuries of Ottoman influence in the Romanian lands, alongside many other everyday words like cafea and ciorbă. The Turkish word itself traces back to Persian pāpush, a compound of pā, foot, and a form of the verb pushidan, to cover. So the word's deep history simply means foot covering.
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