arină

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin arēna; compare Aromanian arinã, Italian arena, rena, Sicilian rina, Portuguese areia. Now a largely regional term and mostly replaced by nisip, a Slavic borrowing. Compare arenă, a borrowed doublet.

Noun

arină f (plural arine)

  1. (archaic, rare, chiefly Transylvania) sand

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