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Meaning of "culbéc" in the Romanian dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CULBÉC

culbéc (culbéci), s. m. – Melc. – Var. culbeci, colbec(i), (cu)culbec, cucumelc, cotobelc, codobelc, cocobelc, cocobeică, cuculbeu, culcubeu, etc. Origine incertă, dar probabil expresivă. DAR tratează separat codobelc, pe care îl consideră der. de la coadă și berc, cu sensul de „fără coadă”, care se potrivește efectiv melcului; însă această der. nu pare naturală. Este mai probabil vorba de o repetiție expresivă, cu alternanța consoanelor, fenomen foarte cunoscut în toate limbile, cf. tura-vura, tanda-manda, cioc-boc, cîr-mîr, etc. Dacă se admite această ipoteză, plecîndu-se, cum pare că trebuie să se facă, de la limbajul copiilor, în care se folosesc exclusiv multe din var., am avea, plecînd de la melc, o formulă de tipul *melcu belcu (înțeleasă ca *mel cubelcu), care, cu reduplicarea sa firească *melcu cubelcu, este deajuns pentru a explica toate formele cuvîntului. Pînă acum sînt puține studii asupra acestuia. Pentru Philippide, II, 710, este pur și simplu obscură; Byck-Graur, BL, I, 23, cred că forma primitivă este cubelci, su sing. analog; iar Scriban o explică prin *ciulbec, metateză de la belciug.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CULBÉC IN ROMANIAN

culbéc


WHAT DOES CULBÉC MEAN IN ROMANIAN?

Definition of culbéc in the Romanian dictionary

CULBÉC ~ ci m. Reg. A soft, viscous, soft body with a spiral shell on its back and four sensitive tentacles on its head; worm. / Orig. App.


ROMANIAN WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CULBÉC

arierbéc · avanbéc · avantbéc · berbéc · calembéc · citlembéc · clambake clem-béc · cuculbéc · ghiobéc · malbéc · rebéc · uzbéc

ROMANIAN WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CULBÉC

culán · culánt · culánță · culáre · culásă · culástră · culáș · culátă · cúlă · culăcíme · culbutá · culbutáre · culbutát · culbutór · culcá · culcáre · culcát · culcubău · culcúș · culcúșă

ROMANIAN WORDS THAT END LIKE CULBÉC

antropopitéc · apléc · australopitéc · autobréc · aztéc · biftéc · cefléc · cercopitéc · ceréc · chesméc · chiocéc · chiostéc · chiuréc · chișléc · chĭostéc · ciofléc · ciorpéc · ciumléc · ciuréc · cĭumléc

Synonyms and antonyms of culbéc in the Romanian dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CULBÉC» IN ROMANIAN

The following Romanian words have a similar or identical meaning as «culbéc» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «culbéc» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF CULBÉC

Find out the translation of culbéc to 25 languages with our Romanian multilingual translator.

The translations of culbéc from Romanian to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «culbéc» in Romanian.
zh

Translator Romanian - Chinese

culbec
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator Romanian - Spanish

culbec
570 millions of speakers
en

Translator Romanian - English

culbec
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator Romanian - Hindi

culbec
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator Romanian - Arabic

culbec
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator Romanian - Russian

culbec
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator Romanian - Portuguese

culbec
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator Romanian - Bengali

culbec
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator Romanian - French

culbec
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator Romanian - Malay

culbec
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator Romanian - German

culbec
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator Romanian - Japanese

culbec
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator Romanian - Korean

culbec
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator Romanian - Javanese

culbec
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator Romanian - Vietnamese

culbec
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator Romanian - Tamil

culbec
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator Romanian - Marathi

culbec
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator Romanian - Turkish

culbec
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator Romanian - Italian

culbec
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator Romanian - Polish

culbec
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator Romanian - Ukrainian

culbec
40 millions of speakers
ro

Romanian

culbéc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator Romanian - Greek

culbec
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator Romanian - Afrikaans

culbec
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator Romanian - Swedish

culbec
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator Romanian - Norwegian

culbec
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of culbéc

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CULBÉC»

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Examples of use in the Romanian literature, quotes and news about culbéc

EXAMPLES

2 ROMANIAN BOOKS RELATING TO «CULBÉC»

Discover the use of culbéc in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to culbéc and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Romanian literature.
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Graiul din zona Câmpulungului Moldovenesc: fonetica - Pagina 359
Turda: atestat în Lcxiconul Budan (DA. s.v. culbec): NALR-Mold. Buc. [1376|: cobélei, 'cobéle, cábele in cele mai multe puñete din Bucovina si in únele locuri ínvecinate: in Moldova (mai rar in partea de sud): colbéc(e), culbéc(e); ALRR-Mar.. h.
Adrian Turculeț, 2002
2
Jahresbericht des Instituts für rumänische ... - Volumele 5-7 - Pagina 77
Berettyó. kgskgrigug - Kopf- oder Brusttuch 180, 182. kukulbgg = curcubäü 224 Regenbogen; in 228 = culbéc, Schnecke. kuptiór - cuptor Marm. kur, kursei, kurs - laufen, Samosch. kuìéikg - Spinnrocken. kgsk I - knirsche XLI 21. kgîmg ...
Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. Institut für Rumänische Sprache, 1898
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Culbéc [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-ro/culbec>. Jun 2026 ».
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