örök

Probably from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).^[1]

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• Hyphenation: örök
• Rhymes: -øk

örök (not comparable)

1. eternal, perpetual

   Synonyms: örökkévaló, örökös

örök

1. (archaic, literary) inheritance
2. (in certain phrases, with -be) keeps (not for borrowing but as a gift, once and for all)

örök

1. (poetic) always, forever, ever (always, forever; continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration))

   Synonyms: örökké, örökösen, folyton, mindig, egyre

   • 1923, Árpád Tóth, Gyopár (“Cudweed”)‎:

     Én mindig úgy keringtem, / Mint bokszoló a ringben, / Örök-gyanakodón.

     I’ve always circled like a boxer in the ring, ever-suspicious.

• örök 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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