Noun: buștean
Long Infinitive of Verb:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | buștean |
| Sg. Def. | bușteanul |
| Pl. Indef. | bușteni |
| Pl. Def. | buștenii |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | buștean |
| Sg. Def. | bușteanului |
| Pl. Indef. | bușteni |
| Pl. Def. | buștenilor |
Vocative
| Singular | bușteanule |
| Plural | buștenilor |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like buștean
bucureștean,
ostrovean,
focșănean,
vălean,
țiclean,
țarigrădean,
nord-european,
israiltean,
piteștean,
moscopolean,
sătean,
sucevean,
țăpulean,
agarinean,
zimnicean,
conorășean,
leuștean,
negruvodean,
porcean,
vlășcean, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown. One theory links it to Transylvanian Saxon Bumstam, equivalent to German Baumstamm. However, while this makes sense for the most common meaning, it doesn't account for the older and rarer meanings or for the Aromanian cognate bushtinã (“soot”), and also the related or derived terms in Romanian, buștenit (“blackened”), buștină (“fog, darkness”), and the regional buștușag (“fire, conflagration, devastation, desolation”), now archaic. These terms all seem to be linked to a derivation of Latin būstum (“place for burning funeral pyres, tomb”), possibly also originally meaning "burnt" (compare combūstus). See: German Nouns '
Baumstamm', Latin Nouns '
būstum'.
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