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praz

Pronunciation: /ˈpraz/

“praz” is a Romanian word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. leek (vegetable)

In Romanian

  1. (bot.) (Allium porrum) plantă erbacee legumicolă din familia liliaceelor, înrudită cu ceapa, cu tulpina cilindrică, groasă și înaltă, cu frunzele lanceolate și cu bulb cărnos.

Etymology

A Slavic borrowing which displaced the inherited (now uncommon) term por / pur. Praz is derived from either Old Church Slavonic празъ (prazŭ), Bulgarian праз (praz) or possibly directly from late Byzantine Greek πράσον (práson), also Aromanian prash); compare also phonetic development of s > z in ovăz). Unlikely from a Vulgar Latin *prasum, (from Ancient Greek) due to the presence of the…

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