The story
- Romanian · borrowed fromBasarabia
- English todayBessarabia
Borrowed from Romanian Basarabia (compare Ukrainian Бессара́бія (Bessarábija)), after the royal House of Basarab.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bessarabia
Today it means: A geographic region of Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west; now divided politically between Moldova and Ukraine. Full definition →
Romanian Basarabia