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Hungarian
Etymology
From a Slavic language. Compare Slovak oceľ, Carpathian Ukrainian оціл (ocil)[1] or оціль (ocilʹ, “steel”).
Pronunciation
Noun
acél (countable and uncountable, plural acélok)
- steel (artificial metal produced from iron)
- (attributive) made of steel
- acél mérőszalag ― steel tape measure
- steel (item made of steel)
- (archaic, literary) sword
- Synonym: kard
1833, Gergely Czuczor, Hunyadi, stanza 6, lines 5-7:S acélt ragad, lovára kap, / Csatáz, vív, izzad éj és nap, / S míg nem győz, nincs nyugalma.- And he grabs a sword, gets on his horse, fights, battles, and sweats day and night, and has no rest until he triumphs.
1854, Mór Jókai, chapter 16, in Egy magyar nábob (“A Hungarian Nabob”):Mindkettő gyakorlott vívó volt. Mindkettő fő törekvésül tűzé ki magának ellenfele arcát megpiszkolhatni, orrát vagy szemét bélyegezni meg. Egyiknek sem sikerült, szemeik merően néztek egymás szemébe, kifeszített karjaikban csak a vékony villogó acél forgott, alig-alig adva egy-egy hideg bántó hangot, minő a köszörült kardok csesszenése, s mely nagyon különbözik az összevert színpadi kardok csattogásaitól.- Both were skilled fencers. Both made it their main ambition to smear their opponent’s face, to brand his nose or eyes. Neither succeeded, their eyes staring stiffly into each other’s, their extended arms brandishing only the thin flashing sword, hardly ever making a cold hurtful sound, like the clatter of sharpened swords, rather different from the clashes of swords struck on the stage.
- (attributively before compound words) steely, strong, tough, sturdy (forming a compound with single words, e.g. acélidegek/acélidegzet, acélizmú, acélmarkú, acélszívű)
- Synonyms: acélos, erős, szívós
- acél idegrendszer ― strong nervous system
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ acél 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, 2011–2024.
Further reading
- acél 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
- acél in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).