rezervă

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French réserve.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈzer.və/
• Rhymes: -ervə
• Hyphenation: re‧zer‧vă

Noun

rezervă f (plural rezerve)

1. reserve (something reserved for future use)

   de rezervă ― spare, for replacement, in reserve

2. reserve (natural resource)
3. (military) reserve
4. (sports) reserve
5. (also in the plural) reservation (hesitation)
   • 1988, Dumitru Olaru, chapter 2, in Integrarea vest-europeană [Western European integration], Bucharest: Editura Politică, page 100:

     Și totuși, după ce a criticat, uneori vehement, Piața comună, în final, generalul de Gaulle a acceptat-o, desigur cu unele rezerve.

     And yet, after having criticised, sometimes vehemently, the Common Market, general de Gaulle accepted it, of course with some reservations.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rezervă	rezerva		rezerve	rezervele
genitive-dative	rezerve	rezervei		rezerve	rezervelor
vocative	rezervă, rezervo			rezervelor

Related terms

• rezerva
• rezervație
• rezervist

Etymology 2

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /reˈzer.və/
• Rhymes: -ervə
• Hyphenation: re‧zer‧vă

Verb

rezervă

1. third-person singular present indicative of rezerva

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /re.zerˈvə/
• Rhymes: -ə
• Hyphenation: re‧zer‧vă

Verb

rezervă

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of rezerva

Further reading

• rezervă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)