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Hungarian
Etymology
cser (“tannin”) + -ben (“in”, case suffix) + hagy (“to leave”)
Pronunciation
Verb
cserben hagy[1]
- (transitive, idiomatic) to let down, walk out on, disappoint, leave somebody in the lurch
- Synonyms: magára hagy, sorsára hagy, pácban hagy, benne hagy a pácban, benne hagy a csávában, benne hagy a slamasztikában
- (transitive, law) to hit and run
Conjugation
- For the verb, see hagy.
- The inflected noun cserben remains unchanged.
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Tóth, Etelka, editor (2017), Magyar helyesírási szótár: A magyar helyesírás szabályai tizenkettedik kiadása szerint [Dictionary of Hungarian orthography: according to the 12th edition of the Rules of Hungarian orthography], Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN. Online version, p. 88
Further reading
(the headwords in both dictionaries reflect the pre-2015 spelling)
- cserbenhagy 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
- cserbenhagy 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).