Re: Sarba Maracine, Maracinelui, Maracina, Maracinei, Maracinii, ...

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

Another thought, just to confuse things further (a specialty of mine):
Actually, the possessive of the masculine form, maracine, would be
maracinelui: Sarba Maracinelui.
Hmmmm...

It's possible that this sarba/sirba was composed by Moskowitz and named
after a place in Romania -- in Romanian Yiddish and not in Romanian. That's
just a wild stab at a guess... I don't find any Romanian-language hits via
Google for this sarba under any spelling variant.

Folkdancers might know a dance called "Banu Maracine", by the way.

sl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra Layman" <sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>
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Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 12:29 PM
Subject: Sarba Maracinei


> Well, Hankus, I wouldn't try eating it. ;-) "Maracina" (or "maracine" --
> take your pick of feminine or masculine variants) in Romanian means
> "bramble" or brier." (BTW, there are breve accents over each "a", which
> results in an "uh" sound: "muhruhCHEEnuh".)
>
> Banu Maracine was an historical personage after whom several places
(towns,
> neighborhoods, and streets) in Romania are named. My guess is that either
> the guy, or one of the places, is whom or what Sarba Maracinei or Sarba
> Maracine is named after.
>
> I'll let you know if I can find out more later...
>
> Sandra
>
>
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