gloată
Romanian
Etymology
From a South Slavic (e.g. Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian) glota; cf. also Polish gołota (“the poor”) (and the Romanian form holotă), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *golota.
Noun
gloată f (plural gloate)
- a crowd, mass, mob, herd, multitude (sometimes with a pejorative sense, as in rabble, commoners, simple people)
- armed band, troop
Synonyms
- (crowd, multitude, mob): mulțime, adunătură, plebe
- (armed band, troop): ceată
See also
- grămadă