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raft
shelf /ˈraft/
noun#5360 most common
Also: rack, ledge
Example sentences
Cartea este pe raft.
The book is on the shelf.
Pun cana pe raftul din bucătărie.
I put the mug on the shelf in the kitchen.
Rafturile din bibliotecă sunt pline de cărți vechi.
The shelves in the library are full of old books.
Am montat un raft nou pe perete pentru trofee.
I mounted a new shelf on the wall for trophies.
Magazinul a reorganizat rafturile pentru a scoate în evidență produsele locale.
The store reorganized the shelves to highlight local products.
Prăfuit și șubred, raftul amenința să se prăbușească sub greutatea enciclopediilor.
Dusty and rickety, the shelf threatened to collapse under the weight of the encyclopedias.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | raft | rafturi |
| Genitive | raftului | rafturilor |
| Accusative | raft | rafturi |
| Vocative | raftule | rafturilor |
Word family
rafturishelves (plural)
raftulthe shelf (definite form)
etajerăshelving unit, freestanding set of shelves (near-synonym, unrelated root)
Etymology
Raft entered Romanian as part of a wider Balkan borrowing chain. The root traces back to Arabic raff, meaning shelf, which Ottoman Turkish took in as raf. From Turkish the word spread through Balkan speech, including Bulgarian, and reached Romanian as raft. It has always referred to a flat surface fixed for storage, not to any kind of boat.
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