marha
Hungarian
Etymology
From Old High German marchat (“market”).
Pronunciation
Noun
marha (plural marhák)
- cattle
- Synonym: szarvasmarha
- Hyponym: see szarvasmarha
- (colloquial) beef (meat from a cow)
- Synonym: marhahús
- (vulgar) blockhead (a stupid person)
- Synonym: állat
- (obsolete) asset, valuables, riches (possession of relatively great value)
- Synonym: vagyon
- 1856, János Arany, Szondi két apródja[1] (The Two Pages of Szondi,[2] translated by Ádám Makkai (Q674247)), verse 11:
- A vár piacára ezüstöt, aranyt, / Sok nagybecsü marhát máglyába kihordat; / Harcos paripái nyihognak alant: / Szügyeikben tőrt keze forgat.
- On the fortress’ square all the silver and gold / Szondi has them build a treasure-pyre mighty; / with dagger in hand he must, fearless and bold, / put to death every whinnying palfrey.
- A vár piacára ezüstöt, aranyt, / Sok nagybecsü marhát máglyába kihordat; / Harcos paripái nyihognak alant: / Szügyeikben tőrt keze forgat.
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | marha | marhák |
accusative | marhát | marhákat |
dative | marhának | marháknak |
instrumental | marhával | marhákkal |
causal-final | marháért | marhákért |
translative | marhává | marhákká |
terminative | marháig | marhákig |
essive-formal | marhaként | marhákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | marhában | marhákban |
superessive | marhán | marhákon |
adessive | marhánál | marháknál |
illative | marhába | marhákba |
sublative | marhára | marhákra |
allative | marhához | marhákhoz |
elative | marhából | marhákból |
delative | marháról | marhákról |
ablative | marhától | marháktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
marháé | marháké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
marháéi | marhákéi |
Possessive forms of marha | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | marhám | marháim |
2nd person sing. | marhád | marháid |
3rd person sing. | marhája | marhái |
1st person plural | marhánk | marháink |
2nd person plural | marhátok | marháitok |
3rd person plural | marhájuk | marháik |
Derived terms
Compound words
Descendants
- Romanian: marfă
Further reading
- marha 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
Anagrams
Ingrian
Noun
marha
Old High German
Noun
marha f
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/hɒ
- Rhymes:Hungarian/hɒ/2 syllables
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- Hungarian colloquialisms
- Hungarian vulgarities
- Hungarian terms with obsolete senses
- hu:Cattle
- Ingrian lemmas
- Ingrian nouns
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