Tudor Hubati, local councilor in the Sulina Local Council, former officer in the Border Police, Danube Delta.
As a child, I heard the word “fairop” and it was widely used in our area and meant something like “hurry up” or “get some fairop” or “hurry up a process, move faster, move something faster”. Being an area with enough Greek, Turkish, Russian words that we used routinely, I didn’t stop to analyze where this fairop could come from. I suspected it was a Turkish word or a Greek word taken into folklore and reached everyone’s lips. Then, I think about 10 years ago, I saw a telegraph, I looked more carefully at the telegraph on an old ship and saw “Fire up” written which meant “All cars ahead” or, well, translated into Romanian “All speed ahead”.
Photo credit: Fortepan, Donor Nagy Gyula
