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Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic поминати (pominati, “to remember, to commemorate”), from Proto-Slavic *pomineti. Compare Polish wspomnieć (“to mention, to remember”), Russian помина́ть (pominátʹ, “to commemorate”), Ukrainian помина́ти (pomynáty, “to remember”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.meˈni/
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: po‧me‧ni
Verb
a pomeni (third-person singular present pomenește, past participle pomenit) 4th conj.
- (obsolete, transitive, sometimes reflexive) to remember, recall
- Synonyms: își aminti, ține minte
16th C., Schei Psalter, Psalm 137, verse 1:Лаᲂу́рїᲂу҆львавило́нᲂулꙋи́,а҆чїешеѕ̾ꙋⷨшиплъ́нсеⷨ,къ́ндᲂупоменїѧ́мꙋ̀нои҆̀сїѡ҆нꙋⷧ҇.- La râul Vavilonului, acie ședzum și plânsem, cându pomeniiamu noi Sionul.
- By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
- (transitive, now literary or informal) to mention
- Synonyms: aminti, menționa
1959, Eugen Barbu, chapter 12, in Șoseaua Nordului [North Road], Bucharest: Editura pentru Literatură și Artă, page 143:Mareș îi povesti pe scurt totul, fără să pomenească de unde plecase și că era însoțit.- Mareș told him everything in short, without mentioning where he’d left from and that he was accompanied.
- (reflexive, chiefly informal) to find oneself (do or undergo something unexpectedly)
- Synonym: se trezi
2021, chapter 4, in Constantin Dumitru-Pălcuș, transl., Buddha și nonconformistul, Bucharest: Trei, translation of The Buddha and the Badass by Vishen Lakhiani, →ISBN, page 136:Și uite-așa m-am pomenit într-o bună zi în propriul birou de la Microsoft.- And just like that, one day I found myself in my own office at Microsoft.
- (transitive, chiefly passive impersonal) to encounter, know of the existence of something
- Synonym: întâlni
- (transitive, uncommon) to have funerary rites and services held in someone’s remembrance
- Synonym: comânda
- (reflexive or transitive, regional) to wake up (oneself or someone else respectively)
- Synonyms: (se) deștepta, (se) scula, (se) trezi
“Tanislav” (folk ballad from Almăjel village, Vlădaia, Mehedinți); gathered around 1900 by Constantin Rădulescu-Codin and published in Ioan Șerb, Florica Șerb, editors, Literatura populară, volume 1, Bucharest: Minerva, 1986, page 168:Tanislav se pomenea,
Pe ochi negri se spăla, […]- Tanislav woke up,
Washed his dark eyes,
- (reflexive, now uncommon) to come into existence
- (transitive, uncommon) to have always known something
1963 August, Mihai Beniuc, Povestea lui Avram Proțap, om de rînd (part 4), in Viața Romînească, year 16, Bucharest, page 33:În sfîrşit, bătrînul într-o zi, sub frăgarul din curte, pe care-l pomenise din copilăria sa puternic și mare, a murit.- In the end, the old man died one day under the mulberry tree in the garden, which he had always known as strong and great since childhood.
- (transitive or passive impersonal, obsolete) to name
- Synonyms: numi, spune, zice
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈmenʲ/
- Rhymes: -enʲ
- Hyphenation: po‧meni
Noun
pomeni f pl
- plural of pomană
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