borsó
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Turkish burçak (“vetch”, a relative of the pea plant).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
borsó (plural borsók)
- pea (a plant, Pisum sativum)
- (obsolete, in compounds) bean
- Synonym: bab (“bean”)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | borsó | borsók |
| accusative | borsót | borsókat |
| dative | borsónak | borsóknak |
| instrumental | borsóval | borsókkal |
| causal-final | borsóért | borsókért |
| translative | borsóvá | borsókká |
| terminative | borsóig | borsókig |
| essive-formal | borsóként | borsókként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | borsóban | borsókban |
| superessive | borsón | borsókon |
| adessive | borsónál | borsóknál |
| illative | borsóba | borsókba |
| sublative | borsóra | borsókra |
| allative | borsóhoz | borsókhoz |
| elative | borsóból | borsókból |
| delative | borsóról | borsókról |
| ablative | borsótól | borsóktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
borsóé | borsóké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
borsóéi | borsókéi |
| Possessive forms of borsó | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | borsóm | borsóim |
| 2nd person sing. | borsód | borsóid |
| 3rd person sing. | borsója | borsói |
| 1st person plural | borsónk | borsóink |
| 2nd person plural | borsótok | borsóitok |
| 3rd person plural | borsójuk | borsóik |
Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions
References
- ^ borsó 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
- borsó 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
- borsó in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).