malac

Probably borrowed from Slovene.^[1] Compare Slovene mládec (“young man”) (plural mládci, which may be the direct source of the Hungarian form), mladič (“young animal”), and mlad (“young”). Compare also Serbo-Croatian mládac, mlàdīć.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ma‧lac
• Rhymes: -ɒt͡s

malac (plural malacok)

1. pig, piglet (a young pig)

   Synonyms: (adult pig) disznó, sertés

2. (derogatory) pig (a sloppy, dirty, improperly eating child; a foul-mouthed adult)
3. (humorous, with a possessive suffix, construed with van (“to have”)) luck

malac (comparative malacabb, superlative legmalacabb)

1. (derogatory, of a child) dirty
2. (derogatory) dirty, naughty, obscene, foul-mouthed

   malac történetek ― dirty stories

• malac 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

Borrowed from Bulgarian малак (malak, “water buffalo calf”), from Ottoman Turkish معلق (malak, “water buffalo calf”), from Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft, gentle”).

malac m (plural malaci)

1. water buffalo calf
2. big and sluggish man