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Hungarian
Etymology
From Old Hungarian achscin, axsin, from Alanic *aχsina; compare Ossetian ӕхсин (æxsin, “mistress, princess”).
Pronunciation
Noun
asszony (plural asszonyok)
- a married or divorced woman or a widow
- (archaic of unmarried women) woman (adult female human)
- Synonyms: nő, hölgy
- Coordinate terms: (archaic in this sense, but traditionally used in coordination with asszony) ember, férfi
- (often colloquial, with definite article) woman, wife
- Synonyms: feleség, nej
1854, Mór Jókai, chapter 19, in Egy magyar nábob:Könnyű a férjnek azt mondani, én holnap vagy egy hónap múlva nagy ünnepélyt adok, hivatalos lesz rá az egész környék, akiket ismerek és olyanok is, akiket sohasem láttam. A többi az asszony gondja.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (formal) lady, mistress (woman of authority)
- Synonym: úrnő
- a ház asszonya ― the lady of the house
- (on its own, with a first-person possessive suffix) madam, ma’am (term of address, see asszonyom)
- Coordinate terms: hölgy, úr, kisasszony, fiatalember
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 34, 84. 251, 252
- ^ Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume II, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 1331
Further reading
- asszony 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
- asszony 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)