goromba

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Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian grub (“rough, rude”), Slovak hrubý (“coarse, rough, rude”), from Proto-Slavic *grǫbъ. Hungarian most likely borrowed the feminine form of the Slavic adjective.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

goromba (comparative gorombább, superlative leggorombább)

  1. (of a person) rough, rude, boorish
    Synonyms: nyers, durva, faragatlan, kíméletlen, modortalan
  2. (of an object, dialectal) rough (not smooth)
    Synonyms: érdes, durva

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative goromba gorombák
accusative gorombát gorombákat
dative gorombának gorombáknak
instrumental gorombával gorombákkal
causal-final gorombáért gorombákért
translative gorombává gorombákká
terminative gorombáig gorombákig
essive-formal gorombaként gorombákként
essive-modal gorombául —
inessive gorombában gorombákban
superessive gorombán gorombákon
adessive gorombánál gorombáknál
illative gorombába gorombákba
sublative gorombára gorombákra
allative gorombához gorombákhoz
elative gorombából gorombákból
delative gorombáról gorombákról
ablative gorombától gorombáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		gorombáé gorombáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		gorombáéi gorombákéi

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ goromba in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

  • goromba 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
  • goromba 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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