goromba
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian grub (“rough, rude”), Slovak hrubý (“coarse, rough, rude”), from Proto-Slavic *grǫbъ. Hungarian most likely borrowed the feminine form of the Slavic adjective.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
goromba (comparative gorombább, superlative leggorombább)
- (of a person) rough, rude, boorish
- Synonyms: nyers, durva, faragatlan, kíméletlen, modortalan
- (of an object, dialectal) rough (not smooth)
Declension[edit]
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | goromba | gorombák |
| accusative | gorombát | gorombákat |
| dative | gorombának | gorombáknak |
| instrumental | gorombával | gorombákkal |
| causal-final | gorombáért | gorombákért |
| translative | gorombává | gorombákká |
| terminative | gorombáig | gorombákig |
| essive-formal | gorombaként | gorombákként |
| essive-modal | gorombául | — |
| inessive | gorombában | gorombákban |
| superessive | gorombán | gorombákon |
| adessive | gorombánál | gorombáknál |
| illative | gorombába | gorombákba |
| sublative | gorombára | gorombákra |
| allative | gorombához | gorombákhoz |
| elative | gorombából | gorombákból |
| delative | gorombáról | gorombákról |
| ablative | gorombától | gorombáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
gorombáé | gorombáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
gorombáéi | gorombákéi |
Derived terms[edit]
Expressions
References[edit]
- ^ goromba in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
Further reading[edit]
- goromba in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN