Romanian words from Spanish
5 Romanian words with Spanish in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
cască
It is borrowed from French casque. Scriban takes it through Russian каска (káska), itself from French, and DELR also names the Russian word as a source after an earlier dictionary. The French word…
ciocolată
It is borrowed from Italian cioccolata. DELR gives this view after Tiktin, the DA and Ciorănescu, and cites the CADE for French chocolat and German Schokolade as sources. MDA2 names all three. The…
lamă
1. The word for the blade is borrowed from French lame. Ciorănescu adds that it came partly by way of Modern Greek λάμα (láma), and DLR and DN name Italian lama beside the French word. The French…
marijuana
It is borrowed from Spanish marijuana; DEX, MDA2 and DILF also name French marijuana as a source. Marcu and Maneca and NODEX name Spanish alone, while Dimitrescu adds English marijuana. Wiktionary…
țigară
It is borrowed from German Zigarre (“cigar”). The German word is from Spanish cigarro, which Kluge and Pfeifer trace to a Maya word for rolled tobacco leaves; Pfeifer adds that the German singular…