bicska

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Hungarian

bicska

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Kipchak; ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bïčgak.[1] Compare Romanian briceag and Albanian biçak. The form bicskia (“shomaker's knife”) is borrowed from Ottoman Turkish via Serbo-Croatian bičkija.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bics‧ka
  • Rhymes: -kɒ

Noun

bicska (plural bicskák)

  1. pocketknife, penknife, jack-knife, clasp-knife
    Synonym: zsebkés

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bicska bicskák
accusative bicskát bicskákat
dative bicskának bicskáknak
instrumental bicskával bicskákkal
causal-final bicskáért bicskákért
translative bicskává bicskákká
terminative bicskáig bicskákig
essive-formal bicskaként bicskákként
essive-modal — —
inessive bicskában bicskákban
superessive bicskán bicskákon
adessive bicskánál bicskáknál
illative bicskába bicskákba
sublative bicskára bicskákra
allative bicskához bicskákhoz
elative bicskából bicskákból
delative bicskáról bicskákról
ablative bicskától bicskáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		bicskáé bicskáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		bicskáéi bicskákéi
Possessive forms of bicska
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bicskám bicskáim
2nd person sing. bicskád bicskáid
3rd person sing. bicskája bicskái
1st person plural bicskánk bicskáink
2nd person plural bicskátok bicskáitok
3rd person plural bicskájuk bicskáik

Derived terms

References

  • Árpád Berta, Studies in Turkic Etymology
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 126

Further reading

  • bicska 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
  • bicska 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).
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