őröl

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See also: orol

Hungarian

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Alternative forms

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  • őr (dialectal)

Etymology

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From Old Hungarian őr (to grind, mill) + -öl (frequentative verb-forming suffix). The verb őr was borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries) in the form of *ävir-.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈøːrøl]
  • Hyphenation: őröl
  • Rhymes: -øl

Verb

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őröl

  1. (transitive) to grind, mill
    Synonyms: darál, zúz
  2. (transitive) to pulverize (as a woodworm does to wood)
    Synonyms: porlaszt, elporlaszt, szétporlaszt
  3. (transitive, literary, of emotional pain) to nag, torment, anguish
    Synonyms: kínoz, gyötör, emészt
  4. (transitive, dialectal) to chitchat, chatter, prattle, babble (too much)
    Synonyms: fecseg, trécsel

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions

References

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  1. ^ őröl in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • őröl 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