apă
See also: Appendix:Variations of "apa"
Romanian
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Alternative forms
[edit]- апэ (apă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. Compare Aromanian apã, Megleno-Romanian apu, Istro-Romanian åpę and Sardinian abba.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]apă f (plural ape)
- water
- apă distilată ― distilled water
- apă dulce ― fresh water (sweet water)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | apă | apa | ape | apele | |
| genitive-dative | ape | apei | ape | apelor | |
| vocative | apă, apo | apelor | |||
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “apă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
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- Romanian terms inherited from Latin
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- Romanian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Romanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Rhymes:Romanian/apə
- Rhymes:Romanian/apə/2 syllables
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian feminine nouns
- Romanian terms with collocations
- ro:Beverages
- ro:Water