cegă

Română

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cegă

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A wanderword existing in all neighboring languages: Serbo-Croatian чега, kečiga; Hungarian köcsög, kecsege; Bulgarian чига (čiga); Ukrainian чечу́га, чу́га; Polish czeczuga. See the discussion at Ottoman Turkish چوقه بالغی (çoka balığı, çuka balığı).

Route of borrowing into Romanian uncertain, probably Hungarian (Skok, ERHSJ, II, 72, ESUM), contracted from a trisyllabic form căciugă.

noun cegă · cega · cege · cegei · cego

feminine, uncountable sterlet

In English

sterlet species of sturgeon

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@misc{cega_2026,
  title = {cegă},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/ceg%C4%83},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}