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prânz

lunch /ˈprɨnz/

noun#999 most common

Also: noon, midday meal

Example sentences

Copiii iau prânzul la școală.
The children have lunch at school.
La prânz, mergem la restaurant.
At noon, we go to the restaurant.
Mama a pregătit un prânz delicios pentru toată familia.
Mom prepared a delicious lunch for the whole family.
După un prânz copios, mi-e greu să mai lucrez.
After a heavy lunch, it is hard for me to keep working.
Tradiția prânzului de duminică aduce toată familia la aceeași masă.
The tradition of Sunday lunch brings the whole family to the same table.
Deși ședința se prelungise, am reușit să ajungem la birou exact la timp pentru prânzul pe care colegii îl comandaseră deja.
Although the meeting had run long, we managed to get to the office just in time for the lunch our colleagues had already ordered.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeprânzprânzuri
Genitiveprânzuluiprânzurilor
Accusativeprânzprânzuri
Vocativeprânzuleprânzurilor

Word family

a prânzito have lunch
prânzulthe lunch (definite form)
de prânzlunch, midday (as in masă de prânz, lunch meal)
prânzurilunches (plural)

Etymology

Prânz descends from Latin prandium, a word for the midday meal. It passed into Romanian through everyday spoken Latin in the region and kept its core meaning for two thousand years. Romanian shows this kind of direct Latin inheritance in much of its basic vocabulary, unlike the layers of French and Slavic borrowing found elsewhere in its lexicon.

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