urdă

See also: urda, urða, Urða, and -urda

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a Dacian substratum word, akin to Albanian urdhë, or more likely derived/borrowed from it. Other theories include Turkish hurde (“yeast”) (as several shepherding-related terms derive from Turkish), or a Thracian term *urida, akin to Ancient Greek ὀρός (orós, “whey”). The word is also found in Aromanian as urdã and Megleno-Romanian as urdă.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈur.də]

Noun

urdă f (uncountable)

  1. a type of unripened whey cheese, similar to ricotta.

Declension
declension of urdă (singular only)
singular
f gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) urdă urda
genitive/dative (unei) urde urdei
vocative urdă, urdo

See also

References
  1. https://www.dex.ro/urd%C4%83
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