Merhaba!
I thought it would be a nice idea to start a list of romanian words that are also in turkish language

alai — alay
bacsis — bahşiş
bairam — bayram
basma — basma
berechet – bereket
bilet-bilet
beton-beton
boccea — bohça
boia — boya
briceag – bıçak
burghiu – burgu
bursuc – porsuk
calabalîc — kalabalık
capac – kapak
capcană - kapan
caraghios – karagöz
caraghioslîc — karagözlük
catîr – katır
catran – katran
cearşaf – çarşaf
ceai-cay
cerdac — çardak
chef – keyif
chefliu – keyifli
chel – kel
chenar – kenar
chiabur – kibar
chiftea — köfte
chilipir – kelepir
chindie – ikindi
ciob – çöp
cioban – çoban
ciomag – çomak
ciorap – çorap
ciocolata-cikolata
ciorbă — çorba
cirac – çırak
cismea — çeşme
ciulama – çullama
ciuruc – çürük
coltuc — koltuk
conac — konak
cutie — kutu
data-data
dulap — dolap
dud — dut
duium – doyum
duşman – düşman
geam – camgeantă — çanta
haide – haydi
iaurt — yoğurt
ioc — yok
iureş — yürüyüş
cherestea — kereste
chibrit — kibrit
electric-elektrik
maidan – meydan
magiun — macun
mamaliga-mamaliga
masă — masa
masaj-masaj
mesaj-mesaj
marina-marina
model-model
papuc – papuç
para – para
parfum-parfum
perdea — perde
pilaf – pilav
poşeta-poşet
sapun-sabun
sarma-sarma
şampon-şampuan
sictir-siktir
sobă — soba
şapcă — şapka
taman — tamam
tavan — tavan
telefon-telefon
zaiafet — ziyafet
vişine-vişne

thats very supriced,and it shows theres a big interaction between Romanina&Turkish aswell on the cultural backround

Hello, my husband is also Turkish, we married on 5th of February, this year and yes, i was very very surprised to hear words sounding so similar to Romanian, my language..hhee
Mary,
we also say:
bardaca-bardak
bre-bre
caisa-kayısı
musteriu-müşteri
pantalon-pantolon
reclama-reklam
sutien-sutyen
For maidan-meydan (we use it with a bit different sense)
(we took them, as some other words, from Turkish, cos we really have a big community in Constanta and in the area of Black Sea)
i am now learning Turkish...but it is a brainstorming in my head

Numai bine, Oana

Maria, thank u very much for your beautiful wishes!
I hope you will be very happy also, with your partner.
Maybe we can keep in touch.
I also have a small book in Romanian with words borrowed from other languages, but i have too look for it, if u want, i may put the whole list, but is pretty long hhehe..

Multumesc pentru cuvintele tale si mai ales pentru raspuns,
Oana

You can understand almost everything in Italian.
Romanian and Italian are almost like a dialect to each other.
They sound like a totally different languages to me, when I hear them though.

But for Turkish words, there was a big Turk movement some long years ago in that area. There should be some Turkish words in Bulgarian and in other neighbor countries too.
And there should be some Romanian words in Turkish. Because many people came to Anatolia through your land long time ago.

But it is always nice to have common words. A nice reason to learn other words

Hi! Indeed very interesting ideea.I was wondering where did you find those words? By yourself?

Many languages borrow words from others but nonetheless it's very convenient when you come across transparent words. I'm also interested in the origins of words etc. (for example masa-mesa (Spanish) is there a connection?) My native language (Danish) is very far from Turkish so unfortunately it's hard to remember words sometimes. Something that has surprised me is the resemblance between danish and kurdish (when you look at some isolated words) but I don't know if that's purely coincidential or what. Languages are fascinating indeed

While I was looking for 'verb suffixes in Korean' I found a forum's topic. I don't remember the site for now. There were people talking about closeness of languages.
It was fun to read them.

There are many sister languages indeed.
Some people can understand not only words even sentences when they read them, some people can understand when they hear them.

Like Norwegian, Danish, Swedish. - Dutch & German
Spanish - Italian - French - Romanian etc...

They also say here that Turkish sounds like German to them.
in Korea.

People always move carrying their languages and traditions.

There maybe some coincidences for words too.

Turkish imported many words, around %10 of the whole language. Thanks to Ottoman language policy.

For example a very important word like SU is same in Chinese and in some other far-eastern languages too.
But I am not sure whether we imported or exported that word from/to Chinese.
If we imported that word some thousand years ago, I really wonder what were we drinking before getting that word?
Or what were Chinese drinking before getting that word?

Also most of languages call MOTHER like ma,mama, mom, or similar words. And FATHER is ba, baba, patar etc...

I really wonder how were people calling their mothers and fathers before getting those words from another language?

Take care,

Merhaba Azade!
the connection between Turkish and Romanian is easy to see(for Romanians, i mean):
the Ottoman Empire fought many many centuries with Romanians, and not only ...in order to make this country a "pashalic" ..
so...some of the Turks remained here...especially in the Black Sea area and around 200 words used in daily speech entered both languages..

About the connection between Turkish and Asian languages...Turkish and Korean, Hungarian and Finnish, are all coming from the Altai Mountains (that happened lon long time ago)....so...these languages are a bit related

another common words

turkish - english - romanian

rahat - finish - shit

baba - father - old lady

Any time, Azade

the interesting aspect is that, even for many centuries we as people fought, now, in the last century...we never had any problems anymore....
the relationship Turkey-Romania is very very good

Mary83, multumesk frumos))It is good that you started this thread. I lived in Bucharest almost 1 year, so I know a little bit of romanian language. And when I visited Turkey for the first time I was very surprised to hear words similar with romanian. And I even thought that maybe it seemed to me. Now I learn turkish and I know that I wasn't mistaken. And thanks to your post I read a lot of interesting info. Really interesting thread, thanks to everybody.
CeylanOANA, congratulations with your beautiful event in life! Be happy!

Deniz,

thank u so much for your words..
u know, my sister-in-law is called Deniz (sea in turkish)
this is a beautiful name

If telling to somebody "You are the chief" are you insulting him/her??

the Romanian verb "a sicii" (read as "sıkıi"), which means to bother sb by repeating sth over and over, comes from the Turkish "sık" (often)

the Turkish "mezelik" (sth that can be served as a meze=appetizer) is used in Romanian as "mizilic"(read as "mizilik") to describe sth of a little importance

"kolye" (Tr)= "colier" (read as kolier) (Ro)= "necklace" in both languages

"hurma" (Tr)= "curmala" (read as kurmala in Ro)= "date" in both languages

"biber"/"kara biber" (Tr)= "piper" (Ro)= "pepper" in both languages

"çizme" (Tr)= "cizme" (Ro)= "boots" in both languages, also read the same

"rakı" (Tr)- "rachiu" (read as "rakiu" in Ro, also designating an alcholic drink)

"bardak" (Tr)- "bardaca" (read as "bardaka" in Ro), but whereas in Tr= glass, in Ro= mug

"yatak" (Tr)- "iatac" (Ro)- read the same, having the same meaning (dated in Romanian)
"kat" (Tr)- "cat" (Ro)- read the same, having the same meaning (dated in Romanian)

"meydan" (Tr)- "maidan" (Ro), but whereas "meydan"= "square" in Tr, in Ro it means an area located at the outskirts of a town

"mahalle" (Tr)- "mahala" (Ro), but whereas in Tr=neighborhood, in Ro= a poor area, at the outskirts of a city, where usually gipsy communities used to live

"kör" (Tr)- "chior" (read as "kior" in Ro)= blind (in Romanian though, it can take a pejorative meaning [e.g. when sb bumps into sb else "chior" for "are you blind?" is used])

"tembel" (Tr)- "tembel" (Ro), but whereas in Turkish ="lazy", in Romanian it designates a "mentally ill person"

a Romanian county called "Teleorman" has Turkish origins- the name resulted from putting together of two Turkish words: "deli"+"orman"

Sorry.
I didn't want to be offensive and I didn't think that my post is offensive. But anyway, sorry again.

I wish the best for all.

I suggest everyone appreciate Mary's help, no matter the origin of the list!!
Let's not make accusations here, Nastica and Bianca.
Mary and anyone else could take the words from an ethimological dictionary !!
I have one home, for example....
This is not a trial, nor a court...
This is a THREAD ABOUT COMMUN WORDS...OK??
SO WE SHOULD BEHAVE LIKE FRIENDS HERE...
NEGATIVE POSTS ARE NOT WELCOME HERE
we are here to learn Turkish....this is the only idea

another Turkish - Romanian common words:
çarşaf = cearşaf
palto = palton
raf = palton
romörk = remorca
tarla = tarla, camp [cýmp]
kibrit = chibrit
balta = baltag, bata [býta]
fasulye = fasole
yatağan = iatagan
patron = patron
benzin = benzina
Of course, some of them come from French, English or Arabic..
The idea is that these words we tried to present in this thread have similar pronounciation and they are also written in smiliar way...