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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَسّ (ḥass) or from Arabic حسد.
Pronunciation
Noun
hess f (plural not attested)
- (slang) a difficult situation
Hungarian
Etymology
An onomatopoeia.[1]
Pronunciation
Interjection
hess
- shoo! (an exclamation used to drive away birds)
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- hess 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