ciocan

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 çekük‎, Proto-Turkic *čekük, *čeküč (“hammer”), possibly through an intermediate Proto-Slavic *čekanъ.

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Noun

ciocan n (plural ciocane)

1. hammer

Declension

Declension of ciocan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ciocan	ciocanul	(niște) ciocane	ciocanele
genitive/dative	(unui) ciocan	ciocanului	(unor) ciocane	ciocanelor
vocative	ciocanule		ciocanelor