Romanian profanity
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Romanian profanity (înjurătură) refers to a set of words considered blasphemous or inflammatory in the Romanian language.
The Romanian language is considered to have a huge set of inflammatory terms and phrases. Profanities rarely differ from region to region in Romania, but there are differences when taking into account languages related to Romanian, such as the Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian languages.
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Pejoratives
These are words generally used of or toward a person, expressing strong distaste in them or their actions.
Fundaş, poponar, curist, bulan and găozar all refer to male homosexuals, roughly the equivalent of "faggot", literally meaning something like "ass user". All of these words are derived from other slang words relating to the anus or buttocks. A word formed in a similar manner is pizdar, which is a womanizer or "skirt-chaser": someone who is obsessed with women. Bulangiu, which is generally translated as "faggot", is used of a man who doesn't want to do something that he should do. It is a harsher equivalent of "slacker". There are many other words referring pejoratively to male homosexuals, but those discussed here are generally the most common.
A puţoi is the possessor of a puţă (see below). It is used either as an insult towards someone suspected of having a small penis, or a rough equivalent to "punk", that is, an immature boy that tries to act "tough".
Nenorocit, originally an old popular phrase, that literally translates as "unlucky", is now used in a powerfully pejorative sense, similarly to "motherfucker" in English. It is used mostly in the vocative form "nenorocitule".
Lăbar and labagiu are rough equivalents of jerk-off. They are used to describe a male who masturbates more often than is absolutely necessary.
Peşte, which literally means fish, colloquially refers to a pimp. The women who work for a peşte are: curvă, târfă, traseistă, botanista and muistă. Muistă & botanistă refers to a prostitute who specializes in fellatio. There is a male equivalent, muist that means "cocksucker" and generally refers to a homosexual male. Târfă also means "bitch" in some contexts.
Profanities related to anatomy
The male anatomy
As in English, there is a huge number of words that can refer to the penis and testicles. Also as in English, most of these words have other literal meanings. One example used in both English and Romanian is "tool," which in Romanian is sculă. Pulă, which is the Romanian equivalent of "dick", is the most common slang term for the penis. (It is frequently used in the expression "ce pula mea", the Romanian equivalent of "what the fuck".) As with slang terms for the penis in other Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan and Italian, pulă is derived from the Latin word pulla. A "softer" version of pulă is puţă, which is roughly equivalent to "wiener" in English. Puţă usually refers to: the penis of a child, a penis that has yet to reach puberty, or a very small penis.
- Other words that refer specifically to the penis include: cocoş (cock), cocoşel (little cock), puţulică (little puţă).
- Some words that refer to the penis with other literal meanings include: sculă (tool), miel (lamb), şarpe (snake).
The most common slang word for the testicles is coaie (which in the singular form is coi), derived from Latin cōleus or cōleī. As in some Spanish-speaking countries, in which a young male friend can be addressed as "boludos", coaie can also be used as a means of addressing someone (especially a young man, but never a girl or woman) in a manner roughly equivalent to using "dude" or "mate" in English. For example "Salut, coaie, ce faci?" means "Hi, balls, how are you doing?". Most young people see nothing wrong in being addressed in this manner whilst older people might be offended.
The female anatomy
A common word for the breasts is balcoane, the plural form of balcon. This literally means "balconies".
Pizdă, which is phonetically identical to its many Slavic cognates (including Polish, Slovenian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian and Bulgarian), is a common word for the external female genitalia, particularly the labia, but also including the vagina. It is an equivalent to "cunt" in English. (This can also mean anything that is 'cool', good or nice as in: "Maşina asta noua e pizdă, frate." meaning "This new car is cool, bro" whereas "pulă" is sometimes used to describe "uncool" things as in: "Maşina asta veche e pulă" meaning "This old car is uncool (is a wreck)" although this is less common. ) A less offensive word for the vagina is păsărica, which literally means little bird. This word is closer to "pussy" in English. Lindic (from the Latin word landīca) refers to the clitoris. ("Clitoris" is also used in regular language.)
- bulan: roughly equivalent to "dumb luck" but it can also mean a woman's thigh (or leg) the word "burlan" (meaning water drainage pipe) is also used
- a bulăni: to touch or caress a woman's thighs (is considered offensive by some women unless they agree to it and can result in charges of sexual harassment)
General anatomy and bodily functions
The buttocks and anus also have a number of words dedicated to them in Romanian. Buci (the plural of bucă) refers to the buttocks, as "ass cheeks" in English. Cur (From Latin culus, cognate to Spanish and Italian culo, French and Catalan cul and others), găoază and ochi maro refer specifically to the anus (cur and găoază meaning "asshole" and ochi maro meaning "brown eye"), while fund refers to the whole of the backside and popou can refer to either, depending on the way it is used. (Note that the words găoazar, fundaş and poponar are derived from găoază, fund and popou respectively. These words pejoratively refer to male homosexuals, literally meaning something like "asshole user".)
- floci (plural of floc): pubic hairs.
- căcat: shit
- căcare: shitting; shit as in "to take a shit" from the Latin word "cacāre" meaning to defecate
- labă: masturbation (literally "paw")
- futai, futere: sexual intercourse
- muie: blowjob, oral sex (from "muian" which is an old Romanian word for "face" still used in some rural areas although "faţă" is now used the most.)
- caca: children's word for shit
- pipi: children's word for piss
- pişat: piss
Bibliography and sources
- Dicţionar de argou al limbii române By George Volceanov. 2000 Niculescu Publishing
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