gloată

Romanian

Etymology

From a South Slavic (e.g. Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian) glota; cf. also Polish gołota (“the poor”) (and the Romanian form holotă), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *golota.

Noun

gloată f (plural gloate)

  1. a crowd, mass, mob, herd, multitude (sometimes with a pejorative sense, as in rabble, commoners, simple people)
  2. armed band, troop

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