forint

English

Etymology

From Hungarian forint, from Italian fiorino (“florin, the former currency of Tuscany”). Doublet of florin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒ.ɹɪnt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ɹɪnt/

Noun

forint (plural forints)

1. The basic unit of currency of Hungary; formerly subdivided into 100 fillér.
   • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Better yet, there were no cover charges, and we didn’t bother to order drinks in half the spots. So, despite having a Slovak beer and shots of both the traditional Hungarian fruit spirit palinka and the bittersweet digestif Unicum, the entire evening cost 2,000 forints, under $10.

Translations

unit of currency

• Arabic: فُورِنْت m (fūrint)
• Bulgarian: фо́ринт m (fórint)
• Catalan: fòrint (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 福林 (zh) (fúlín)

• Czech: forint (cs) m
• Finnish: forintti (fi)
• French: forint (fr) m
• Greek: φιορίνι (el) n (fioríni)
• Hungarian: forint (hu)
• Icelandic: fórinta f, forinta f
• Italian: fiorino (it) m
• Polish: forint (pl) m
• Romanian: forint (ro) m
• Russian: фо́ринт (ru) m (fórint)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фори́нта f, фо̀рӣнт m

  Latin: forínta (sh) f, fòrīnt (sh) m

• Spanish: florín húngaro m, forinto m

Anagrams

• Fortin, fortin

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈforɪnt]

Noun

forint m inan

1. forint

Declension

Declension of forint (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	forint	forinty
genitive	forintu	forintů
dative	forintu	forintům
accusative	forint	forinty
vocative	forinte	forinty
locative	forintu	forintech
instrumental	forintem	forinty

French

Noun

forint m (plural forints)

1. forint

Hungarian

Etymology

A wanderword. Probably via German Florin/Florentiner or Medieval Latin. Ultimately from Italian fiorino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈforint]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fo‧rint
• Rhymes: -int

Noun

forint (plural forintok)

1. forint
2. guilder (former Dutch currency)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	forint	forintok
accusative	forintot	forintokat
dative	forintnak	forintoknak
instrumental	forinttal	forintokkal
causal-final	forintért	forintokért
translative	forinttá	forintokká
terminative	forintig	forintokig
essive-formal	forintként	forintokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	forintban	forintokban
superessive	forinton	forintokon
adessive	forintnál	forintoknál
illative	forintba	forintokba
sublative	forintra	forintokra
allative	forinthoz	forintokhoz
elative	forintból	forintokból
delative	forintról	forintokról
ablative	forinttól	forintoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	forinté	forintoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	forintéi	forintokéi

Possessive forms of forint

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	forintom	forintjaim
2nd person sing.	forintod	forintjaid
3rd person sing.	forintja	forintjai
1st person plural	forintunk	forintjaink
2nd person plural	forintotok	forintjaitok
3rd person plural	forintjuk	forintjaik

Derived terms

• forintnyi
• forintos
• Ft (abbreviation)

Descendants

• → Catalan: fòrint
• → English: forint

Further reading

• forint 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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

A wanderword. Via Hungarian forint. Ultimately from Italian fiorino.

Noun

forint m (definite singular forinten, indefinite plural forintar, definite plural forintane)

1. forint (Hungarian currency)

References

• “forint” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian forint, from Italian fiorino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.rint/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrint
• Syllabification: fo‧rint

Noun

forint m animal

1. forint (currency of Hungary)

Declension

Declension of forint

	singular	plural
nominative	forint	forinty
genitive	forinta	forintów
dative	forintowi	forintom
accusative	forinta	forinty
instrumental	forintem	forintami
locative	forincie	forintach
vocative	forincie	forinty

Further reading

• “forint”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “forint”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian forint, from Italian fiorino (“florin, former currency of Tuscany”), diminutive of fiore, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).

Noun

forint m (plural forinți)

1. forint

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	forint	forintul	forinți	forinții
genitive-dative	forint	forintului	forinți	forinților
vocative	forintule		forinților

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fǒriːnt/

Noun

fòrīnt m inan (Cyrillic spelling фо̀рӣнт)

1. forint

   Synonym: forínta

Swedish

Noun

forint c

1. forint, currency of Hungary

Declension

Declension of forint

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	forint	forints
	definite	forinten	forintens
plural	indefinite	forinter	forinters
	definite	forinterna	forinternas

References

• “forint”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)