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Etymology
. Possibly an early borrowing from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬); 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, also borrowings from the Proto-Slavic.

The phonetics of the word show it has been in Romanian a few centuries before most of the vocabulary borrowed from Slavic languages. As such, some linguists argue it could be instead a Balkan word, cognate to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a summertime settlement of shepherds, consisting of the shepherds' hut, the sheepfold, and the milking area (strungă)
 * 2) hut (of a shepherd)
 * 3) sheepfold