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kenyér

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Hungarian

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 kenyér on Hungarian Wikipedia
kenyerek

Etymology

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Uncertain. Perhaps from or akin to Permic. Compare Udmurt кеньыр (keńyr). First attested in 1138.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛɲeːr]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːr
  • Hyphenation: ke‧nyér
  • Syllabification: ke‧nyér

Noun

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kenyér (countable and uncountable, plural kenyerek)

  1. bread (foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals)
    Coordinate terms: brúgó, cipó, vekni
    Elküldtem a boltba kenyérért. ― I sent him to the store for bread.
  2. (figurative) bread (food, sustenance, or, generally, the materials necessary for living)
  3. (figurative) someone's habit or characteristic
  4. (figurative, folksy) grains used to make bread, such as wheat, rye, and sometimes barley
    Synonym: kenyérgabona
  5. (dialectal, figurative) floury, bitter-tasting, spoiled honey in the comb

Declension

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Possessive forms of kenyér
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kenyerem kenyereim
2nd person sing. kenyered kenyereid
3rd person sing. kenyere kenyerei
1st person plural kenyerünk kenyereink
2nd person plural kenyeretek kenyereitek
3rd person plural kenyerük kenyereik

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ kenyér in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.
  2. ^ kenyér 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

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  • kenyér 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.
  • kenyér in Hungarian–English dictionary at SZTAKI