alabástrom

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin alabastrum, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρον (alábastron, vessel for ointments made of alabaster).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ala‧bást‧rom
  • Rhymes: -om

Noun

alabástrom (plural alabástromok)

  1. alabaster (a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative alabástrom alabástromok
accusative alabástromot alabástromokat
dative alabástromnak alabástromoknak
instrumental alabástrommal alabástromokkal
causal-final alabástromért alabástromokért
translative alabástrommá alabástromokká
terminative alabástromig alabástromokig
essive-formal alabástromként alabástromokként
essive-modal
inessive alabástromban alabástromokban
superessive alabástromon alabástromokon
adessive alabástromnál alabástromoknál
illative alabástromba alabástromokba
sublative alabástromra alabástromokra
allative alabástromhoz alabástromokhoz
elative alabástromból alabástromokból
delative alabástromról alabástromokról
ablative alabástromtól alabástromoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
alabástromé alabástromoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
alabástroméi alabástromokéi
Possessive forms of alabástrom
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. alabástromom alabástromaim
2nd person sing. alabástromod alabástromaid
3rd person sing. alabástroma alabástromai
1st person plural alabástromunk alabástromaink
2nd person plural alabástromotok alabástromaitok
3rd person plural alabástromuk alabástromaik

Adjective

alabástrom (not comparable)

  1. alabaster (resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent)

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • alabástrom 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
  • alabástrom 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).