apró

Hungarian

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps borrowed from a Turkic languages before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Turkic *oprā- (to chop up, cut to pieces). It may have entered Hungarian in the form *opraq (tiny, small).

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• Hyphenation: ap‧ró
• Rhymes: -roː

Adjective

apró (comparative apróbb, superlative legapróbb)

1. tiny, small

   Synonyms: kicsi, pici, parányi, pirinyó

   Antonyms: nagy, hatalmas, óriási

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

apró (plural aprók)

2. change, loose change (small denominations of money)

   Synonyms: aprópénz, fémpénz, váltópénz

3. (in the plural, with the verb lép) small steps
4. (rare) small child

Declension

In the sense of “small child”:

See also

• visszajáró (“change, namely the balance returned after a purchase”)

References

Further reading

• apró 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
• apró in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)