bogrács

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English

Noun

bogrács (plural bogrács)

  1. Alternative form of bogracs.
    • 1965, Esquire, volume 64, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130, columns 1–2:
      Nomadizing Hungarian shepherds and fishermen were perhaps the first people who cooked a gulyás in their bogrács.
    • 1969, Hungarian Foreign Trade, volumes 20–21, Budapest: Hungarian Chamber of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      In the evening they moored their punts to the river bank, and at the water’s edge the fishermen made their supper in bogrács (cooking pans) over an open fire.
    • 2023, Gabor Bartos, “Successful Hannukah Soup Kitchen Event and the New Year Eve Ball 1939”, in Stigmata of Auschwitz, part 2, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
      He was cooking the soup outside in the cold on front of the porch in a bogrács (3 legged cauldron) and when he finished then he served it with Elisabeth’s freshly made pasta.
    • 2024, All Complete Guides, Learn to Speak and Write Hungarian in 30 Days, →ISBN, page 229:
      Stews, soups, and braised dishes are often prepared in a bogrács, a traditional cauldron, over an open fire.

Hungarian

 bogrács on Hungarian Wikipedia
bogrács

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish باقراج (bakrac, copper bucket), from باقر (bakır, copper).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bog‧rács
  • Rhymes: -aːt͡ʃ

Noun

bogrács (plural bográcsok)

  1. cauldron (large suspended metal pot for cooking over an open fire)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bogrács bográcsok
accusative bográcsot bográcsokat
dative bográcsnak bográcsoknak
instrumental bográccsal bográcsokkal
causal-final bográcsért bográcsokért
translative bográccsá bográcsokká
terminative bográcsig bográcsokig
essive-formal bográcsként bográcsokként
essive-modal
inessive bográcsban bográcsokban
superessive bográcson bográcsokon
adessive bográcsnál bográcsoknál
illative bográcsba bográcsokba
sublative bográcsra bográcsokra
allative bográcshoz bográcsokhoz
elative bográcsból bográcsokból
delative bográcsról bográcsokról
ablative bográcstól bográcsoktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular
bográcsé bográcsoké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
bográcséi bográcsokéi
Possessive forms of bogrács
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bográcsom bográcsaim
2nd person sing. bográcsod bográcsaid
3rd person sing. bográcsa bográcsai
1st person plural bográcsunk bográcsaink
2nd person plural bográcsotok bográcsaitok
3rd person plural bográcsuk bográcsaik

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: bogracs, bogrács
  • Polish: bogracz
  • Ukrainian: бограч (bohrač)

Further reading

  • bogrács in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • bogrács in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).