verbunkos

English

Etymology

From Hungarian verbunkos.

Noun

verbunkos (uncountable)

1. An 18th-century Hungarian military genre of dance and music, typically divided into fast and slow sections.

Hungarian

Etymology

From the archaic verbunk (“recruitment”, in turn from German Werbung (“recruitment”)) +‎ -os (adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrbuŋkoʃ]
• Hyphenation: ver‧bun‧kos
• Rhymes: -oʃ

Noun

verbunkos (plural verbunkosok)

1. verbunkos (an 18th-century Hungarian military genre of dance and music, typically divided into fast and slow sections)

   Synonym: toborzó

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	verbunkos	verbunkosok
accusative	verbunkost	verbunkosokat
dative	verbunkosnak	verbunkosoknak
instrumental	verbunkossal	verbunkosokkal
causal-final	verbunkosért	verbunkosokért
translative	verbunkossá	verbunkosokká
terminative	verbunkosig	verbunkosokig
essive-formal	verbunkosként	verbunkosokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	verbunkosban	verbunkosokban
superessive	verbunkoson	verbunkosokon
adessive	verbunkosnál	verbunkosoknál
illative	verbunkosba	verbunkosokba
sublative	verbunkosra	verbunkosokra
allative	verbunkoshoz	verbunkosokhoz
elative	verbunkosból	verbunkosokból
delative	verbunkosról	verbunkosokról
ablative	verbunkostól	verbunkosoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	verbunkosé	verbunkosoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	verbunkoséi	verbunkosokéi

Possessive forms of verbunkos
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	verbunkosom	verbunkosaim
2nd person sing.	verbunkosod	verbunkosaid
3rd person sing.	verbunkosa	verbunkosai
1st person plural	verbunkosunk	verbunkosaink
2nd person plural	verbunkosotok	verbunkosaitok
3rd person plural	verbunkosuk	verbunkosaik

Further reading

• verbunkos 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