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radă
roadstead (a sheltered stretch of water near shore where ships can anchor safely) /ˈra.də/
noun#3046 most common
Also: anchorage, ship anchorage ground
Example sentences
Vasul este în radă.
The ship is in the roadstead.
Pescarii ancorează bărcile în radă.
The fishermen anchor their boats in the roadstead.
Nava a ajuns în rada portului Constanța.
The ship reached the roadstead of the port of Constanța.
Rada este un loc protejat unde navele pot aștepta înainte de a intra în port.
The roadstead is a protected place where ships can wait before entering the harbor.
Din cauza furtunii, mai multe vase au rămas ancorate în radă timp de două zile.
Because of the storm, several ships stayed anchored in the roadstead for two days.
Autoritățile portuare au restricționat accesul în rada exterioară pentru a preveni coliziunile dintre nave.
The port authorities restricted access to the outer roadstead to prevent collisions between ships.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | radă | rade |
| Genitive | rade | rade |
| Accusative | radă | rade |
| Vocative | radă | rade |
Word family
raderoadsteads
ancorajanchorage, the act or place of anchoring
danăberth, quay slot for a shipportharbor, portEtymology
Romanian borrowed "radă" from French "rade" during the nineteenth-century wave of French loanwords that reshaped Romanian technical vocabulary. French itself took the nautical sense from English "road," whose meaning "place where ships can ride at anchor" grew out of the older sense "a riding, a journey." That older English word goes back to Old English "rād," from a Germanic root tied to riding and travel.
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