cozonac
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cozonac (countable and uncountable, plural cozonaci)
- (rare) A kind of stollen or sweet bread, often containing raisins, popular in southeastern Europe.
- 1923, The Graphic, volume 107, page 440:
- It is an ancient custom for householders to give many "cozonacs"—a national, simple kind of cake that is always obtainable in every household—to both friends and employees on Easter morn, […]
- 1967, Annie Samuelli, The Wall Between, page 203:
- […] enjoyed the baking of numerous "cozonacs" and cracking the red, gaily patterned eggs against each other, although we did not accompany this with the prescribed "Christ has Risen."
- 2010, someone quoted in W. Gordon Lawrence's The Creativity of Social Dreaming, page 88:
- I dreamt of my dead husband, who asked me for a cozonac, adding, 'It's important that you prepare it yourself.' I had this dream three nights in a row until I finally baked it.
- 2010, Haya Leah Molnar, Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania, page 251:
- On New Year's Day Mama bakes a cozonac. She hasn't baked one since my birthday in April, ages ago. I follow her into the kitchen to watch her knead and braid the dough.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Bulgarian кузунак (kuzunak).
Noun[edit]
cozonac m (plural cozonaci)
- a kind of sponge cake
Declension[edit]
Declension of cozonac
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cozonac | cozonacul | (niște) cozonaci | cozonacii |
genitive/dative | (unui) cozonac | cozonacului | (unor) cozonaci | cozonacilor |
vocative | cozonacule | cozonacilor |
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