malac

Probably borrowed from Slovene. 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