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trandafir
rose /tran.daˈfir/
noun#2936 most common
Also: rose bush
Example sentences
Acesta este un trandafir roșu.
This is a red rose.
Ana are un trandafir în grădină.
Ana has a rose in the garden.
I-am dăruit un buchet de trandafiri albi.
I gave her a bouquet of white roses.
Trandafirul din colțul grădinii a înflorit mai devreme anul acesta.
The rose in the corner of the garden bloomed earlier this year.
Parfumul trandafirilor sălbatici umplea aerul serii de vară.
The scent of wild roses filled the summer evening air.
Deși gerul de peste noapte a pârjolit multe flori, trandafirii bătrâni din livada bunicii au rezistat neclintiți.
Although the overnight frost scorched many flowers, the old roses in grandmother's orchard remained unshaken.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | trandafirul | trandafirii |
| Genitive | trandafirului | trandafirilor |
| Accusative | trandafirul | trandafirii |
| Vocative | trandafirule | trandafirilor |
Word family
trandafiriurosy, pink-colored
trandafirellittle rose (diminutive)
rozărose (Latin-derived synonym, also used for the color)
Etymology
Trandafir entered Romanian from Byzantine Greek τριαντάφυλλο (triantafyllo), a compound meaning roughly "thirty-leaved," used for the many-petaled cultivated rose. The word likely reached Romanian through Balkan intermediaries, notably Bulgarian трендафил (trendafil), rather than directly from Greek. Romanian also uses the Latin-derived roză for the flower and its color, so the two terms now sit side by side with slightly different registers.
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