sárkány
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sárkány
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *siāŕgan (“carp; snake, dragon”). Compare Cuman sazagan, Kipchak sazağan (“dragon”), Turkish sazan.
Pronunciation
Noun
sárkány (plural sárkányok)
- dragon
- kite (a lightweight toy carried on the wind and controlled from the ground by a line)
- virago, termagant, vixen, shrew, Xanthippe (a malicious, quarrelsome woman)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | sárkány | sárkányok |
| accusative | sárkányt | sárkányokat |
| dative | sárkánynak | sárkányoknak |
| instrumental | sárkánnyal | sárkányokkal |
| causal-final | sárkányért | sárkányokért |
| translative | sárkánnyá | sárkányokká |
| terminative | sárkányig | sárkányokig |
| essive-formal | sárkányként | sárkányokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | sárkányban | sárkányokban |
| superessive | sárkányon | sárkányokon |
| adessive | sárkánynál | sárkányoknál |
| illative | sárkányba | sárkányokba |
| sublative | sárkányra | sárkányokra |
| allative | sárkányhoz | sárkányokhoz |
| elative | sárkányból | sárkányokból |
| delative | sárkányról | sárkányokról |
| ablative | sárkánytól | sárkányoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
sárkányé | sárkányoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
sárkányéi | sárkányokéi |
| Possessive forms of sárkány | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | sárkányom | sárkányaim |
| 2nd person sing. | sárkányod | sárkányaid |
| 3rd person sing. | sárkánya | sárkányai |
| 1st person plural | sárkányunk | sárkányaink |
| 2nd person plural | sárkányotok | sárkányaitok |
| 3rd person plural | sárkányuk | sárkányaik |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Pannonian Rusyn: шаркань (šarkanʹ)
Further reading
- sárkány 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