muhar

Hungarian

FWOTD – 17 November 2014

Setaria verticillata

Alternative forms

• mohar

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian muhar, derivative of muha (“fly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmuɦɒr]

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• Hyphenation: mu‧har
• Rhymes: -ɒr

Noun

muhar (plural muharok)

1. Any of a group of various types of grass of genus Setaria
   • 1906, Endre Ady, A magyar Ugaron [The Magyar Fallow], poem, lines 1–4:

     Elvadult tájon gázolok:
     Ős, buja földön dudva, muhar.
     Ezt a vad mezőt ismerem,
     Ez a magyar Ugar.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	muhar	muharok
accusative	muhart	muharokat
dative	muharnak	muharoknak
instrumental	muharral	muharokkal
causal-final	muharért	muharokért
translative	muharrá	muharokká
terminative	muharig	muharokig
essive-formal	muharként	muharokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	muharban	muharokban
superessive	muharon	muharokon
adessive	muharnál	muharoknál
illative	muharba	muharokba
sublative	muharra	muharokra
allative	muharhoz	muharokhoz
elative	muharból	muharokból
delative	muharról	muharokról
ablative	muhartól	muharoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	muharé	muharoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	muharéi	muharokéi

Possessive forms of muhar

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	muharom	muharjaim
2nd person sing.	muharod	muharjaid
3rd person sing.	muharja	muharjai
1st person plural	muharunk	muharjaink
2nd person plural	muharotok	muharjaitok
3rd person plural	muharjuk	muharjaik

Descendants

• → German: Mohar
• → Polish: mohar
• → Romanian: mohor
  • → Bulgarian: моха́р (mohár)
• → Ukrainian: моха́р (moxár), мога́р (mohár)
  • → Russian: моха́р (moxár), мога́р (mogár)
• → Transylvanian Saxon: Mauchert, Mäuchert, Mochert, Muchert, Meochert
• → Slovak: mohár, muhár
  • → Czech: mohár

Further reading

• muhar 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.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mòhār, mȍhār, mȕvār

Etymology

From mùha +‎ -ar. Parallelly formed in Slovene mȗhvič, mȗhič, dialectal Slovak mušec, Russian мыше́й (myšéj), Ukrainian миші́й (myšíj), Belarusian мяшэй (mjašej) (the meaning varies concerning the specific grass).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǔxaːr/, /mûxaːr/
• Hyphenation: mu‧har

Noun

mùhār or mȕhār m inan (Cyrillic spelling му̀ха̄р or му̏ха̄р)

1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

Declension

Declension of muhar

	singular	plural
nominative	muhar	muhari
genitive	muhara	muhara
dative	muharu	muharima
accusative	muhar	muhare
vocative	muhare	muhari
locative	muharu	muharima
instrumental	muharom	muharima

Derived terms

• muhàrika (“wild foxtail millet, Setaria viridis”)

Descendants

• → Hungarian: muhar, mohar
  • → German: Mohar
  • → Polish: mohar
  • → Romanian: mohor
    • → Bulgarian: моха́р (mohár)
  • → Ukrainian: моха́р (moxár), мога́р (mohár)
    • → Russian: моха́р (moxár), мога́р (mogár)
  • → Transylvanian Saxon: Mauchert, Mäuchert, Mochert, Muchert, Meochert
  • → Slovak: mohár, muhár
    • → Czech: mohár

Further reading

• “muhar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• Bezlaj, France (1982), Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Slovenian Language] (in Slovene), volumes 2 (K – O), Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, page 208
• Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1991), “мяшэй”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 7 (мгла – не́марасць), Minsk: Navuka i technika, →ISBN, page 158
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “мишій”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 470
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “мушій”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 544