#Romanian village

• Eve caroler — A traditional term designating a caroler (usually a child or youth) who goes from house to house on the morning or eve of Christmas or New Year to announce the holiday and receive gifts; by extension, the gift (pretzel, walnuts, apples, or money) offered to these carolers. In some rural areas, it also represents the special decorated stick carried by children during these customs.
• Clearing — A place located in an open or bright area within a forest, meadow, or hill, characterized by limestone soil or light shades of vegetation; a toponymic variant frequently used to name villages, brooks, or rural pastures in the Carpathian area.
• Alixeni — The name of a locality (village) in Romania, such as the Alixeni village in Ialomița County (Axintele commune), or an archaic/regional plural form used to designate the members of a historical family whose ancestor bore the name Alixă or Alixandru.
• Altulești — The name of small rural localities in Romania, found in the historical geographical gazetteer or as a local microtoponym; designates community settlements historically formed around families or estates whose patronymics derived from the onymic stem 'Altu'.
• Alunu Commune — The name of a commune and several villages in Romania, situated primarily in Vâlcea county; a documented rural administrative-territorial unit, historically associated with lignite mining and traditional agricultural activities. It also represents a frequently encountered local toponym for hills, valleys, or small watercourses in hilly areas.
• Amandea (plant) — A rare popular or regional name attributed to a herbaceous plant from the local spontaneous flora or a shrub variety whose leaves or fruits vaguely resemble the shape and structure of the almond tree. The term belongs lexically to rural botanical onomastics and is used especially in traditional communities.
• Angherești — A geographical proper name representing a locality, village, hamlet, or neighborhood in Romania, formed with a classic collective-patronymic suffix indicating the original settlement of Anghene's or Anghel's descendants. As a structural entity in the official gazetteer of localities, it preserves the historical value of old land grants and how rural communities developed around a family nucleus.
• Anghinești — A geographical proper name representing a locality, village, or territorial component within the Romanian space, formed with a traditional collective-patronymic suffix indicating the hearth or original settlement of the descendants of the Anghene or Anghel lineage. As an entity in official gazetteers and onomastic databases, it preserves the memory of rural social organization around historical family nuclei.
• Antelești — The name of rural localities or microtoponyms within the Romanian geographical space, formed from an old patronymic by applying the collective suffix '-ești'. This toponym historically indicates the hearth of a group of households founded by the descendants or heirs of a common ancestor named Antel or Ante.
• Antilești — A rare toponymic name designating a small rural settlement, a hamlet, or a micro-toponym (place name) located within the territory of Romania, historically based on a family surname or a community nickname; structurally, it denotes a village hearth formed around the descendants of a common ancestor. The name is closely linked to traditional rural social organization.
• Antonești — The name of several rural localities and geographical settlements within the Romanian area (located in counties from Romania such as Vâlcea or in districts of the Republic of Moldova), a designation historically formed through collective derivation from the name of a founder or estate owner named Anton or Antonescu. In a geographical and administrative sense, it represents a stable territorial unit, historically populated by structurally related families, whose name preserves the traditional Romanian pattern of group toponym formation.
• Apatiu — A rural locality forming part of Chiochiș town in Bistrița-Năsăud County, located within the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. The settlement is positioned in an area of low rolling hills and is demographically recognized as a small traditional community historically focused on fruit growing and subsistence farming.
• Arabești — The name of rural localities or hamlets on the territory of Romania (such as Arabești village in Vrancea county); it represents toponyms of old tradition, structurally linked in the past to the names of land owners, historical land grants, or collective nicknames within local communities.
• Ardănești — A local toponym or archaic name historically borne by an estate, a vanished hamlet, or a rural micro-region within Romanian territories, structurally associated with settlements founded by the descendants of a local leader named Ardan. In a geographical and documentary sense, it reflects the classic formation pattern of Romanian village names by adding the collective patronymic suffix '-ești' to a base name, indicating ancestral ownership over the lands.
• Aref — An archaic toponymic form or onomastic element structurally linked to the territory of the Arefu commune in Argeș County, Romania, occasionally utilized in ancient administrative documents or vintage maps to designate this historical mountain settlement. The village and its surroundings are famous in folklore for legends regarding landowners loyal to prince Vlad the Impaler.
• Arghel — The name of a river (tributary of the Moldovița river) and a component village within the Moldovița commune, Suceava county, Romania, structurally located in the picturesque mountain landscape of the Bucovina Ridges. In a geographical and documentary sense, the locality is characterized by a community tightly linked to traditional wood logging, animal husbandry, and the preservation of ethnocultural elements specific to Hutsuls and Bucovinians.
• Arișoaia — A Romanian toponym designating a locality, a hamlet, a landform, or a watercourse of local interest within the territory of Romania, such as the former village Arișoaia integrated into the geographical structure of Alba County. This place name preserves a specific ethno-linguistic value of traditional rural zones, being closely linked to the history of human settlements or the physical features of the land in respective regions.
• Armindeni — The plural form for the homonymous holiday or ritual pole, used regionally to designate the festive timeframe around May 1st. Geographically, the term represents a toponymic proper name borne by villages or hamlets in the Romanian territory (such as Armindeni village in Alba county), whose naming is historically linked to the collective celebration of these spring rites.
• Arsanca — A native geographical name designating secondary watercourses or rural localities within the territory of Romania, such as the Arsanca village in Mușătești commune, Argeș county. Etymologically, the toponym is closely linked to the lexical root of the verb 'a arde' (to burn, past participle 'ars'), historically associated with archaic practices of clearing land through fire or areas historically affected by vegetation fires.
• Arsinești — A native rural toponym designating a geographical settlement or a micro-region within the Romanian territory, possessing a strong historical resonance linked to founding families or areas historically cleared by fire. Linguistically, the name is a patronymic derivative formed on the lexical root 'Arsin' (derived from the past participle 'ars' or the first name Arsinte/Arsenie) and the plural collective suffix '-ești', characteristic of traditional community structures in the Carpathian region.