роман
Russian
noun+
Definitions
- novel
- affair, love affair, romance
Etymology
Borrowed from French roman (novel, epic, a medieval romance) derived from Old French romanz (common language).
Origin
Old French
romanz
Gloss
common language
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- romantic English
- *romanĭce Latin
- romanicē Latin
- romanus Latin
- rōmānicē Latin
- Bildungsroman German
- Roman German
- romanzo Italian
- roman Dutch, Flemish
- radioroman French
- roman French
- romancier French
- romaniser French
- рома́н Russian
- romance Spanish, Castilian
- roman Norwegian Bokmål
- romanse Norwegian Bokmål
- ロマン Japanese
- roman Norwegian Nynorsk
- romanse Norwegian Nynorsk
- romauns Middle English
- romanz Old French
- romano Esperanto
- roman Serbo-Croatian
- roman Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- رمان Persian
- roman Turkish
- ראָמאַן Yiddish
- រ៉ូម៉ង់ Central Khmer
- romans Old Occitan