agár
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agár
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- (dialectal): ogár
Etymology
First attested in 1395. From Old Hungarian agar and earlier Agar . Borrowed from a West Slavic language; compare Czech ohař, Polish ogar and Slovak ohar, from Proto-Slavic *ogarь. Or less likely directly borrowed from a (Oghuric) Turkic language.
Pronunciation
Noun
agár (plural agarak)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | agár | agarak |
| accusative | agarat | agarakat |
| dative | agárnak | agaraknak |
| instrumental | agárral | agarakkal |
| causal-final | agárért | agarakért |
| translative | agárrá | agarakká |
| terminative | agárig | agarakig |
| essive-formal | agárként | agarakként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | agárban | agarakban |
| superessive | agáron | agarakon |
| adessive | agárnál | agaraknál |
| illative | agárba | agarakba |
| sublative | agárra | agarakra |
| allative | agárhoz | agarakhoz |
| elative | agárból | agarakból |
| delative | agárról | agarakról |
| ablative | agártól | agaraktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
agáré | agaraké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
agáréi | agarakéi |
| Possessive forms of agár | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | agaram | agaraim |
| 2nd person sing. | agarad | agaraid |
| 3rd person sing. | agara | agarai |
| 1st person plural | agarunk | agaraink |
| 2nd person plural | agaratok | agaraitok |
| 3rd person plural | agaruk | agaraik |
Derived terms
Expressions
References
- Marek Stachowski, Eugen Helimskis Materialien zur Erforschung der ältesten slawisch-ungarischen Sprachkontakte, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 14 (2009): 35–107 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego: Kraków, page 41
- agár 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
- agár 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
- agár 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).