seprő

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sep‧rő
• Rhymes: -røː

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).^[1]

Compare Bashkir сүпрә (süprə, “leaven, ferment”), Greek τσίπουρο (tsípouro).

seprő (usually uncountable, plural seprők)

1. lees, dregs, grounds (the sediment that settles during fermentation of wine)
2. (figuratively) the dregs (the worst and lowest part of something)

   a társadalom sepreje ― the dregs of society

From the sepr- stem of seper (“to sweep”) +‎ -ő.^[2]

seprő

1. present participle of seper: sweeping

seprő (plural seprők)

2. (dated) Alternative form of seprű (“broom”) (a domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping)
3. sweeper (a person or a machine who sweeps floors)

• (lees, dregs): seprő 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
• (sweeping; broom): seprő 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