mierli

From Late Latin merŭlum, from Latin merula.

mierli m

1. blackbird

• IPA^(key): /mjerˈli/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: mier‧li

Borrowed from Romani merel. Doublet of muri.

a mierli (third-person singular present mierlește, past participle mierlit) 4th conjugation (slang)

1. to die
   • 1999 January 4, A666Z35, “Vin minerii in Bucuresti? [Are the miners coming to Bucharest?]”, in soc.culture.romanian‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Stiam ca Ana Pauker a mierlit-o cu mult in urma, dar probabil ca tu, ca si ala de se da ca securistul, asazis generalul, R. Theodoru, sunteti stafiile acelor jigodii.

     I knew that Ana Pauker snuffed it long ago, but you, same as the guy going as the securist and so‐called general R. Theodoru, must be the ghosts of those scoundrels.

   • 2004 February 14, coren <coren1@bezeqint.net>, “A crapat Kremer si a ramas alt drac,Coren (1) [Kremer kicked the bucket and another devil, Coren, is left]”, in soc.culture.romanian‎^[2] (Usenet), message-ID <c0lnku$187ndk$1@ID-216277.news.uni-berlin.de>:

     Pacat ca nu veti apuca sa vezi ziua asta .
     Veti mierli inaintea mea.
     Tu de sida, Costica de ce a mierlit Eminescu, Orashel de inima rea dupa voi.
     Dunezeu nu bate cu bata !

     A shame that you won't live to see the day.
     You'll die before me.
     You of AIDS, Costică of whatever Eminescu died of, Orăshel of a broken heart after you.
     God beats not with a cane!

   • 2008, chapter 33, in Lucian Popa, transl., Aventurile lui Tom Sawyer, 2nd edition (paperback), Bucharest: Corint Junior, translation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, →ISBN, page 323:

     ― Aiurea, Huck, ce te-a apucat? Înțeleg să bântuie pe unde a mierlit-o, da’ el a murit tocmai la intrarea în peșteră, hăt-departe, la opt kilometri de aici.

     Nonsense, Huck, what's come to you? I’d understand if it haunted the place where he died, but he died right at the entrance into the cave, far away, eight kilometers from here.

2. (rare) to kill
   • 2003 April 13, Spaima Limbricilor, “Ploua, ploua, Bombonel se oua! [It rains, it rains, Bombonel lays eggs!]”, in soc.culture.romanian‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Dar Dumnezeu a avut grija si l-a mierlit pe agresorul de atunci.

     But God took care and killed that time's aggressor.

The first sense of the word is almost always accompanied by the placeholder pronoun o.

Unknown.

a mierli (third-person singular present mierlește, past participle mierlit) 4th conjugation

1. (Oltenia, of eyes) to be half-closed
   1. (of people, by extension) to doze off
2. (western Transylvania) to gaze longingly

• “mierli”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025