falat

See also: fałat, Falat, Falát, and Fałat

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒlɒt]
• Hyphenation: fa‧lat
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

fal (“to devour”) +‎ -at (noun-forming suffix)

Noun

falat (plural falatok)

1. (of food) mouthful, bite, bolus

   Coordinate term: korty

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	falat	falatok
accusative	falatot	falatokat
dative	falatnak	falatoknak
instrumental	falattal	falatokkal
causal-final	falatért	falatokért
translative	falattá	falatokká
terminative	falatig	falatokig
essive-formal	falatként	falatokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	falatban	falatokban
superessive	falaton	falatokon
adessive	falatnál	falatoknál
illative	falatba	falatokba
sublative	falatra	falatokra
allative	falathoz	falatokhoz
elative	falatból	falatokból
delative	falatról	falatokról
ablative	falattól	falatoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	falaté	falatoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	falatéi	falatokéi

Possessive forms of falat

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	falatom	falatjaim
2nd person sing.	falatod	falatjaid
3rd person sing.	falatja	falatjai
1st person plural	falatunk	falatjaink
2nd person plural	falatotok	falatjaitok
3rd person plural	falatjuk	falatjaik

Derived terms

• falatka
• falatnyi
• falatocska
• falatozik

Compound words

• jutalomfalat

Descendants

• → Old Slovak: falat
  • Pannonian Rusyn: фалат (falat)
• → Serbo-Croatian: fȁlat / фа̏лат
• → Slovene: falȁt

Etymology 2

fal (“wall”) +‎ -at (accusative case suffix)

Noun

falat

1. accusative singular of fal

   Lefestettem a falat. ― I painted the wall.

Further reading

• falat in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• falat 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).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian falat.

Noun

falàt m inan (Cyrillic spelling фала̀т)

1. (Burgenland Croatian) one, item, piece

Further reading

• Neweklowsky, Gerhard (2010), “falat”, in Jezik Gradišćanskih Hrvatov [Language of the Burgenland Croats] (in Serbo-Croatian and German), Trajštof (Trausdorf an der Wulka): Znanstv. inst. gradišćanskih hrvatov, →ISBN, page 66