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talpă

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Related with regional Serbo-Croatian tȃlpa / tȃlpa (“plank”), Macedonian талпа (talpa, “plank”), dialectal Bulgarian та́лпа (tálpa, “thick or broad plank, board”), Hungarian talp (“sole”), dialectal Russian те́льпа (télʹpa, “sled or sledge or sleigh with two skids, or one without skids running only on boards”), тельпу́х (telʹpúx, “block or stump from a tree”).

Also may be related to Friulian talpe (“paw”). talpinà, talpetà (“to stamp”), Valsugan talpa, talpón (“tree stump”), Venetan and Padovan talpón (“tree stump or rootstock”), and further to be compared to Alemannic German Talpe (“paw”), Silesian German Talpe (“hand”), Thuringian Talpe, Talpsche (“great hand”), talpen (“to walk clumsily; to grab clumsily”), talfern (“to touch with little dexterity”), Middle High German tâpe, talpe (“paw”), Alemannic German antalpen (“to touch with little dexterity”), antapen (“to paw, to grope”), Bavarian Tälpen (“rootstocks”).

Could also be connected to German tappen, English tap, due to a connection to a body part. With such nativity in Germanic the Romanian, Hungarian, and Slavic terms however are frequently ascribed to a dark substrate, so a Gepidic or else East Germanic may be the source. The Slavic terms however are accordingly from Romanian.

noun tălpi · talpă · talpa · tălpile

  1. feminine sole of the foot
  2. feminine treadle of a machine like a workbench
  3. feminine heel of the butt of a rifle
  4. feminine skid of a sled, sledge or sleigh
  5. feminine ground beam of a building, grade beam
  6. feminine board attached to a building of a farmhouse
  7. feminine any of the two wooden parts on which the cradle of a baby stands
  8. feminine, figuratively fundament or basic constituent, pillar

Talpă²

Where it comes from

From talpă.

proper noun lui Talpă

  1. masculine a surname

In English

  • sole bottom of the foot

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@misc{talpa_2026,
  title = {talpă},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/talp%C4%83},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}