kamuka

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Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Medieval Latin camoca, from Persian کمکها (kamkhâ, damask), perhaps from Sinitic.

Pronunciation

Noun

kamuka (plural kamukák)

  1. (archaic) damask
    • 1884, Mór Jókai, A lőcsei fehér asszony (“The White Woman from Lőcse”), chapter XXIV:
      Szép meggyszín kamuka dolmány volt rajta, aranygombokkal, szedrázsia világoskék nadrág és sárga sarkantyús csizma.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    Synonym: damaszt

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative kamuka kamukák
accusative kamukát kamukákat
dative kamukának kamukáknak
instrumental kamukával kamukákkal
causal-final kamukáért kamukákért
translative kamukává kamukákká
terminative kamukáig kamukákig
essive-formal kamukaként kamukákként
essive-modal
inessive kamukában kamukákban
superessive kamukán kamukákon
adessive kamukánál kamukáknál
illative kamukába kamukákba
sublative kamukára kamukákra
allative kamukához kamukákhoz
elative kamukából kamukákból
delative kamukáról kamukákról
ablative kamukától kamukáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
kamukáé kamukáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
kamukáéi kamukákéi
Possessive forms of kamuka
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kamukám kamukáim
2nd person sing. kamukád kamukáid
3rd person sing. kamukája kamukái
1st person plural kamukánk kamukáink
2nd person plural kamukátok kamukáitok
3rd person plural kamukájuk kamukáik

Further reading

  • kamuka 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