hess

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic حَسّ (ḥass) or from Arabic حسد.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /hɛs/
  • Audio(file)

Noun[edit]

hess f (plural not attested)

  1. (slang) a difficult situation

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

An onomatopoeia.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

hess

  1. shoo! (an exclamation used to drive away birds)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ hess 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[edit]

  • hess 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
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