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ciocan

Română

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ciocan¹

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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 [script needed] (çekük), Proto-Turkic *čekük, *čeküč (“hammer”), possibly through an intermediate Proto-Slavic *čekanъ. Largely displaced native mai.

noun ciocane · ciocan · ciocanul · ciocanele

  1. neuter hammer
  2. neuter, slang penis

Ciocan²

Where it comes from

From ciocan.

proper noun lui Ciocan

  1. masculine a surname

In English

  • hammer tool
  • malleus the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear

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@misc{ciocan_2026,
  title = {ciocan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/ciocan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}