cseber

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Hungarian

cseber

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Slavic or West Slavic language,[1][2] from Proto-Slavic *čьbьrъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

cseber (plural csebrek)

  1. vat, bucket, pail (a round container with one handle, made of wood or tin, used to carry liquids)
    Synonyms: veder, vödör

Usage notes

Mainly used in the expression cseberből vederbe (out of the frying-pan into the fire).

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative cseber csebrek
accusative csebret csebreket
dative csebernek csebreknek
instrumental cseberrel csebrekkel
causal-final cseberért csebrekért
translative cseberré csebrekké
terminative cseberig csebrekig
essive-formal cseberként csebrekként
essive-modal
inessive cseberben csebrekben
superessive csebren csebreken
adessive csebernél csebreknél
illative cseberbe csebrekbe
sublative cseberre csebrekre
allative cseberhez csebrekhez
elative cseberből csebrekből
delative cseberről csebrekről
ablative csebertől csebrektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
cseberé csebreké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
cseberéi csebrekéi
Possessive forms of cseber
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. csebrem csebreim
2nd person sing. csebred csebreid
3rd person sing. csebre csebrei
1st person plural csebrünk csebreink
2nd person plural csebretek csebreitek
3rd person plural csebrük csebreik

Derived terms

Expressions

References

  1. ^ cseber in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ cseber in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

  • cseber 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
  • cseber, redirecting to csöbör 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).