ciocan

See also: Ciocan

Romanian

Etymology

Corresponds with many cognates in the Balkan sprachbund, including Bulgarian чук (čuk), чукан (čukan), Serbo-Croatian čekić, Polish czekan, Albanian çekan, Hungarian csákány. Ultimately from Ottoman Turkish چكیچ (çekiç), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (çekük), Proto-Turkic *čekük, *čeküč (“hammer”), possibly through an intermediate Proto-Slavic *čekanъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ciocan n (plural ciocane)

  1. hammer
  2. (slang) penis

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative ciocan ciocanul ciocane ciocanele
genitive-dative ciocan ciocanului ciocane ciocanelor
vocative ciocanule ciocanelor

Further reading

“ciocan”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Volceanov, George-Paul; Volceanov, George (2020), Noul dicționar de argou al limbii române [The New Slang Dictionary of the Romanian Language]‎[1], Romania: Editura Litera, →ISBN, page 78

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