Romanian words from Bulgarian
9 Romanian words with Bulgarian in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
ba
It is borrowed from Bulgarian ба (ba), a particle that also spread to Serbo-Croatian ba, Polish ba, Ukrainian ба (ba) and Russian ба (ba). MDA2 and DEX name several Slavic languages as the source…
bolnav
It is borrowed from Bulgarian болнав (bolnav). Ciorănescu follows Cihac in this and compares Romanian boală and boli. In Bulgarian the word is a derivative of болен (bolen, “sick”), Old Church…
ciudat
It is probably borrowed from Bulgarian чудат (čudat, “wonderful; strange”), as Pascu proposed in 1931; the DA, Tiktin, MDA2 and DEX follow him. CADE and Ciorănescu derive it in Romanian from ciudă…
da
1. The word for “yes” is a late borrowing from Slavic, most likely from several languages at once: borrowed from Bulgarian да (da) in the speech of Muntenia, Russian да (da) in the towns of Muntenia…
grijă
It is borrowed from Bulgarian грижа (griža, “worry, care”), as MDA2, DEX, Wiktionary and the Bulgarian etymological dictionary give it. Tiktin compares the Bulgarian word and derives it from Old…
grozav
It is borrowed from Bulgarian грозав (grozav), according to MDA2, DEX and Wiktionary. The Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary records it as a dialect word, a derivative of the noun гроза (groza…
lin
1. The word for the tench is borrowed from Bulgarian лин (lin, “tench”), according to DEX, MDA2 and the DLR. Ciorănescu and Tiktin take it as borrowed from Old Church Slavonic линь (linĭ), after…
păstra
Its source is disputed. Ciorănescu takes it borrowed from Modern Greek παστρεύω (pastrévo, “to clean”), from πάστρα (pástra, “cleanliness”), following Meyer and Tiktin, and compares Albanian pastroj…
război
1. The word for war is borrowed from Old Church Slavonic разбои (razboi, “crime, murder”), a word of the Old Church Slavonic texts. MDA2 and the DLR gloss the Slavonic source as “killing, plunder”…