dovleac

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دولك (devlek), dialectally pronounced dövlek.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dovleac m (plural dovleci)

  1. pumpkin
    Synonyms: (Moldavia) bostan; curcubetă

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References

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  1. ^ Emil Suciu, “Contacts linguistiques : turc et roumain”, Romanische Sprachgeschichte: Ein internationales Handbuch zur Geschichte der romanischen Sprachen, vol. 2, eds. Gerhard Ernst et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006), 1673-6.