cimpoi

Romanian

Alternative forms

• cimpoaie
• ciumpoi
• чимпой (cimpoi) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Probably from a Vulgar Latin root *centipollium, from Latin centipellium, centipellio (“third stomach of a ruminant”) < centum + pellium, as bagpipes were made from animal stomachs. Compare also Italian centopelle (“tripe”). Alternatively from the variant form cimpoaie, perhaps from an earlier *șimpoaie and this from Latin symphonia (compare Italian zampogna (“bagpipe”), Piedmontese ciamporgna; cf. also Portuguese sanfonha (“hurdy-gurdy”) and Romansch zampuogn (“type of bell”)) or Hungarian csimpolya, which seems more likely to have come from the Romanian word instead.

Noun

cimpoi n (plural cimpoaie)

1. bagpipe

   Synonym: gaidă

2. stomach of a ruminant
3. bellows

   Synonyms: foale, burduf

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cimpoi	cimpoiul		cimpoaie	cimpoaiele
genitive-dative	cimpoi	cimpoiului		cimpoaie	cimpoaielor
vocative	cimpoiule			cimpoaielor

Derived terms

• cimpoiaș
• cimpoier