bábu

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Hungarian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, of uncertain origin. Possibly from báb (“puppet, dummy”) +‎ -u (diminutive suffix) (compare anyu, apu), or from baba (“baby; doll”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

bábu (plural bábuk)

  1. puppet, marionette (any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove)
    Synonyms: báb, bábfigura
  2. (dated) doll (a toy in the form of a human)
    Synonyms: játék baba, baba
  3. (bowling) pin, bowling pin
    Synonyms: báb, tekebáb, tekebábu, kuglibábu
  4. (board games) piece, counter, figure (an object used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games)
  5. (chess) chess piece
    Synonyms: sakkbábu, sakkfigura

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bábu bábuk
accusative bábut bábukat
dative bábunak bábuknak
instrumental bábuval bábukkal
causal-final bábuért bábukért
translative bábuvá bábukká
terminative bábuig bábukig
essive-formal bábuként bábukként
essive-modal — —
inessive bábuban bábukban
superessive bábun bábukon
adessive bábunál bábuknál
illative bábuba bábukba
sublative bábura bábukra
allative bábuhoz bábukhoz
elative bábuból bábukból
delative báburól bábukról
ablative bábutól bábuktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		bábué bábuké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		bábuéi bábukéi
Possessive forms of bábu
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bábum bábuim
2nd person sing. bábud bábuid
3rd person sing. bábuja bábui
1st person plural bábunk bábuink
2nd person plural bábutok bábuitok
3rd person plural bábujuk bábuik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ bábu in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  2. ^ bábu in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

  • bábu 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
  • bábu in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
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