ciucă

== Romanian == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Hungarian csuka, from Proto-Slavic *ščùka. Doublet of știucă. ==== Noun ==== ciucă f (plural ciuci) northern pike (Esox lucius) === Etymology 2 === Uncertain. Possibly a substratum word. Compare Bulgarian чука (čuka, “rocky hillock, peak”), Albanian çukë (“peak”), Serbo-Croatian čuka (“hilltop”). ==== Noun ==== ciucă f (plural ciuci) a round mountain peak a habit, hobby, way of being ===== Declension ===== === References === === Further reading === ciucă in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN