poveste

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic повѣсть (pověstĭ, tale, narration, legend), from Proto-Slavic *pověstь, from *po- + *věstь (message). Compare Serbo-Croatian povest (history) and Russian повесть (povestʹ, narrative, story), Czech pověst (narrative story).

Pronunciation

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Noun

poveste f (plural povești)

  1. story, yarn, tale, fable

Declension

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