lapos

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See also: Lapoș, lápos, and Lápos

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Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: la‧pos

Verb

lapos

  1. to penetrate
  2. to pierce through

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lapos.

Anagrams

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: la‧pos
  • Rhymes: -oʃ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *lappɜ (“flat surface”) + -os (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate to Finnish lape, Erzya лапужа (lapuža).

Adjective

lapos (comparative laposabb, superlative leglaposabb)

  1. flat (having no variations in height)
    Synonyms: sík, sima
    Antonyms: lankás, hepehupás, hullámos, dombos, dimbes-dombos, hegyes, (of a region) hegyes-völgyes, egyenetlen, buckás, (of a fairly small stretch of road) göröngyös
  2. (colloquial) flat (having small or invisible breasts)
    Synonym: (slang) deszka
    Antonyms: melles, bögyös, dús keblű
  3. dull, bland, stale, uninteresting
    Synonyms: unalmas, egyhangú, érdektelen, jellegtelen, semmitmondó
    Antonyms: érdekes, izgalmas, érdekfeszítő
    lapos közhelyeket pufogtat ― to mouth platitudes (literally, “to crack flat commonplaces”)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lapos laposak
accusative laposat laposakat
dative laposnak laposaknak
instrumental lapossal laposakkal
causal-final laposért laposakért
translative lapossá laposakká
terminative laposig laposakig
essive-formal laposként laposakként
essive-modal — —
inessive laposban laposakban
superessive laposon laposakon
adessive laposnál laposaknál
illative laposba laposakba
sublative laposra laposakra
allative laposhoz laposakhoz
elative laposból laposakból
delative laposról laposakról
ablative lapostól laposaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		laposé laposaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		laposéi laposakéi
Derived terms
Compound words

Etymology 2

lap (“page”) +‎ -os (adjective-forming suffix)

Adjective

lapos (not comparable)

  1. consisting of a given number of pages or sheets
    Synonym: (referring to printed matter) oldalas
Declension
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lapos laposak
accusative laposat laposakat
dative laposnak laposaknak
instrumental lapossal laposakkal
causal-final laposért laposakért
translative lapossá laposakká
terminative laposig laposakig
essive-formal laposként laposakként
essive-modal — —
inessive laposban laposakban
superessive laposon laposakon
adessive laposnál laposaknál
illative laposba laposakba
sublative laposra laposakra
allative laposhoz laposakhoz
elative laposból laposakból
delative laposról laposakról
ablative lapostól laposaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		laposé laposaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		laposéi laposakéi

References

  1. ^ Entry #458 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ lapos 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.)

Further reading

  • (flat): lapos 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
  • (with … pages or sheets): lapos 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

Spanish

Noun

lapos m pl

  1. plural of lapo
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