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rufă
a piece of laundry (garment or linen for washing) /ˈru.fə/
noun#4432 most common
Also: garment, linen, wash (clothes to be cleaned)
Example sentences
Aceasta este o rufă curată.
This is a clean piece of laundry.
Pun rufele murdare în mașina de spălat.
I put the dirty laundry in the washing machine.
Trebuie să întind rufele la uscat înainte să plouă.
I need to hang the laundry out to dry before it rains.
Vecina mea are un coș plin cu rufe nespălate lângă ușă.
My neighbor has a basket full of unwashed laundry by the door.
Deși mașina de spălat rufe modernă economisește timp, bunica mea tot prefera să spele rufele cu mâna.
Although the modern washing machine saves time, my grandmother still preferred to wash the laundry by hand.
Nu-mi place să-mi spăl rufele murdare în public, așa că prefer să rezolv disputele în familie.
I don't like to air my dirty laundry in public, so I prefer to settle disputes within the family.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rufă | rufe |
| Genitive | rufei | rufelor |
| Accusative | rufă | rufe |
| Vocative | rufo | rufelor |
Word family
rufelaundry, clothes for washing
rufărielinens or underwear collectively; also a shop selling lingerie
rufosragged, dressed in worn-out clothes
mașină de spălat rufewashing machine
Etymology
Romanian dictionaries trace "rufă" to a South Slavic source, close to Bulgarian and Serbian "ruba", meaning clothing or linen. The word entered Romanian during centuries of contact with Slavic-speaking neighbors in the Balkans, alongside many other household and clothing terms. It settled into Romanian mainly in the plural, "rufe", as the everyday word for laundry.
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