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cioară.

crow

6 characters2 syllables approx.Română language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈt͡ʃo̯a.rə/
  1. crow

    feminine
  2. slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person

    derogatory · ethnic · feminine · slang · slur
Where this word comes from

Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italo-Romance dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.