legătură Noun, f, legătură ▼ ▶

1. connection, link, correlation, relationship of cause and effect
   Synonyms: conexiune

   a se afla în strânsă legătură cu: to be closely tied to

   a face legătura: to make the connection

   a pune în legătură: to correlate, link

   Legătura dintre venit și fericire este evidentă.

   The link between income and happiness is obvious.

   Se investighează legătura poluării fonice cu bolile cardiace.

   The connection between noise pollution and heart disease is being investigated.

   Jurnaliștii au făcut legătura între politicile sale și donatorii către campania lui.

   The journalists made the connection between his policies and his campaign donors.

   Charles Darwin a pus în legătură habitatul și adaptarea.

   Charles Darwin linked habitat with adaptation.

   literally Charles Darwin put habitat and adaptation in connection.
2. connection of similarity, something to do with
   Synonyms: treabă (informal)

   a avea legătură cu: to have something to do with

   a nu avea nicio legătură cu: to have nothing to do with

   Ce legătură are industria cu politica?

   What does industry have to do with politics?

   literally What connection does industry have with politics?

   Ce zici tu nu are nicio legătură cu ce zic eu.

   What you’re saying has nothing to do with what I’m saying.

   literally has no connection

   Nu prea există o legătură între teorie și practică.

   Theory doesn’t have much to do with practice.

   literally There isn’t much of a connection between theory and practice.
3. human relationship, relation, connection, bond
   Synonyms: relație, raport

   a ține legătura: to keep in touch
4. (chiefly in collocations) contact, link, attachment, connection
   de legătură: linking, intermediary, connecting

   a face legătura: to connect, bridge, be the link

   Între cele două bazine este un tub de legătură.

   Between the two vats there is a connecting tube.

   literally a tube of connection

   Aici se vorbește un grai de legătură între cel moldovenesc și cel ardelenesc.

   Here is spoken a dialect intermediary between the Moldavian and Transylvanian one.

   literally a dialect of link

   Biochimia face legătura între chimie și biologie.

   Biochemistry bridges chemistry and biology.

   literally Biochemistry makes the contact between chemistry and biology.

   Punctul de legătură va fi sudat.

   The point of contact will be welded.
5. (telecommunications, logistics) connection, line
   a îi da legătura: to put through, to connect

   a îi face legătura cu: to put through with

   a pierde legătura: to lose connection
6. bundle (group of objects tied together)
7. bundle (package or sack for carrying)
   Synonyms: boccea
8. (chemistry) bond
9. (Internet) hyperlink, link
   Synonyms: link
10. binding of a book
11. (now technical) tie, belt, loop (something that binds)
12. (historical) person who, during the illegal operation of the Romanian Communist Party (1924–1944), would covertly mediate contact between members and Party higherups
13. (plural, uncommon) connections (useful acquiantances)
    Synonyms: relație<alt:relații>, pilă<alt:pile>
14. (rare) synonym of legare (tying, binding)
15. (plural) fetters, shackles
16. (figurative, now, rare) captivity, yoke, slavery
    Synonyms: robie
17. (now, uncommon) kerchief
18. (dated) necktie
    Synonyms: cravată
19. (skiing) ski binding
20. (nautical, uncommon) rope
    Synonyms: odgon, parâmă
21. (obsolete) agreement, accord, understanding
    Synonyms: acord, convenție, înțelegere, învoială
22. (obsolete, or, historical) pact, treaty
    Synonyms: pact, tratat
23. (obsolete) promise, obligation
    Synonyms: făgăduială, îndatorire, legământ, obligație, promisiune
24. (obsolete) contract
25. (obsolete) alliance
    Synonyms: alianță
26. (medicine, obsolete) bandage
    Synonyms: bandaj, pansament
27. (medicine, obsolete, or, regional) poultice, cataplasm
    Synonyms: cataplasmă
28. (anatomy, obsolete) ligament
29. (figurative, plural, obsolete) prison
    Synonyms: închisoare, pușcărie, penitenciar, temniță
30. (obsolete, or, regional) spell, curse
    Synonyms: vrajă
31. (obsolete, rare) bet
    Synonyms: pariu, prinsoare, rămășag
32. (grammar, obsolete) conjunction
    Synonyms: conjuncție

Appox. usage (any sense): 285 per million words

ierta Verb, ierta

1. to forgive
2. to exempt, to relieve someone of an obligation or a debt
3. (dated) to free someone from slavery

Appox. usage (any sense): 87.8 per million words

datorie Noun, f, datorie

1. debt
2. obligation, duty
3. liability
4. assets

Appox. usage (any sense): 89.9 per million words

sarcină Noun, f, sarcină

1. burden, load, weight, onus
2. duty, obligation, task, responsibility
3. pack
4. pregnancy

Appox. usage (any sense): 44.4 per million words

obligație Noun, f, obligație

1. obligation

Appox. usage (any sense): 0.787 per million words

obligare Noun, f, obligare

1. obligation

Appox. usage (any sense): 0.174 per million words

îndatorire Noun, f, îndatorire ▼ ▶

1. duty, obligation
2. favor
3. financial obligation

Appox. usage (any sense): 6.28 per million words

silă Noun, f, silă ▼ ▶

1. disgust, loathing, abhorrence, hatred, aversion, antipathy, revulsion, dislike, ill-will, (deep) grudge
   Synonyms: dezgust, ură, aversiune, antipatie, repulsie, scârbă
2. constraint, pressure, obligation
   Synonyms: constrângere
3. (dated) force, violence
   Synonyms: forță, violență
4. (archaic) force, power, strength
   Synonyms: forță, putere
5. (archaic) armed force, army
   Synonyms: armată, oaste

Appox. usage (any sense): 2.69 per million words

datorință Noun, f, datorință

1. moral duty, obligation

Appox. usage (any sense): less than 0.1 per million words