ciucă

See also: ciuca, Ciuca, and Ciucă

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hungarian csuka, from Proto-Slavic *ščùka. Doublet of știucă.

Noun

ciucă f (plural ciuci)

1. northern pike (Esox lucius)

Etymology 2

Unknown. Compare Bulgarian чука (čuka, “rocky hillock, peak”), Albanian çukë (“peak”), Serbo-Croatian čuka (“hilltop”).

Noun

ciucă f (plural ciuci)

1. a round mountain peak
2. a habit, hobby, way of being

Declension

Declension of ciucă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) ciucă	ciuca	(niște) ciuci	ciucile
genitive/dative	(unei) ciuci	ciucii	(unor) ciuci	ciucilor
vocative	ciucă, ciuco		ciucilor

References

• ciucă in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN