deranja

Forms

deranja (third-person singular present deranjează, past participle deranjat) 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French déranger (“to disarrange, disturb”).^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][1]} The French verb is formed on ranger (“to arrange, put in order”), from rang (“row, rank”), which goes back to Frankish *hring (“circle, ring”), in particular a military unit drawn up in a circle.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR's first record is from I. Golescu, about 1832.^[2] Tiktin gives about 1830.^[5] The first sense was “to put out of order, disarrange”.^[2][5]

Semantic evolution

From disarranging things, the verb passed to machines and organs that stop working properly (a-și deranja stomacul “to upset one's stomach”) and to people disturbed in their rest or work.^[2][6][7] The reflexive a se deranja “to take the trouble” is used mostly in polite formulas such as Nu vă deranjați! “Don't trouble yourself!”.^[2][5][6] The derivative deranj is a back-formation recorded in Caragiale in 1885;^[2][3] Ciorănescu compares dejun from French déjeuner.^[2][3]

Timeline

• c. 1830 – Tiktin's first record.^[5]
• c. 1832 – deranja and deranjament in I. Golescu.^[2]
• 1885 – deranj “disorder, trouble” in Caragiale.^[2]
• 1899 – deranjant “disturbing”.^[2]

Meanings

Verb

1. To put things out of order, disarrange;^[6][4][1] a-și deranja stomacul to get an indigestion.^[6][4][1]
2. To make a machine or device stop working properly.^[4][7]
3. (figurative) To disturb someone's peace or work; to bother, inconvenience.^[6][4][1]
4. To make someone move to let another pass; reflexive, to get up and make room.^[4]
5. (reflexive, in polite formulas or ironic) To take the trouble, bother oneself.^[6][4][1]

Word family

• deranj
• deranjament
• deranjant

Related words

• aranja
• rang
• French déranger

Usage notes

DELR records two rare old variants: derangea, and deranjarisi with the suffix of verbs taken through Greek.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2011–), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române (DELR), vol. I: A–B (2011), vol. II: C (2015–2018), București: Editura Academiei Române; continued online at delr.lingv.ro, p. s.v. deranja
3. ^ a b c Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. deranja
4. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 649
5. ^ a b c d e Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. deranjá
6. ^ a b c d e f g DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 293
7. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. deranja