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a-i fi dor de Ńară to be homesick
dor de casă
dor de ducă -
Note: The dots stand for both „somebody” or „something”.
However, linguists argue that there is one non-Romanian noun with the same
meaning as dor: the Portuguese saudad, but this sole exception appears as a
confirmation of the virtual uniqueness of dor. It is also noteworthy that dor is
polysemous, some of its meanings corresponding (according to AnuŃei 1990:
483) to the German nouns Verlangen (“endeavour”), Liebesweh
(“lovesickness”) and Schmerz (“pain”). Panovf (1986: 103) also gives the
English “grief” as corresponding to one of the meanings of dor, which once
again confirms that “pain” is an essential component of the meaning of the
Romanian noun. The Romanian noun shows peculiarities not only at the
semantic level, but also morphologically. Thus, dor can be declined (Genitive:
dorului) or diminuted (doruleŃ). The Internet search for dor performed with the
Google search engine showed the distribution displayed in Table 2 below:
Table 2. Dor on the Internet pages
.ro Internet pages all Internet pages
dor 6,830 12,100 *)
dor de Ńară 247 460
dor de casă/dor de 77+27 153 +50
acasă
dor de ducă 73 150
*) approximate value
One can notice that it is heavily present on the Romanian language websites on
domains different from .ro, i.e. sites in the Republic of Moldova, also a
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