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Hungarian
Etymology
Contraction; a euphemistic form (minced oath) of terem(tő) (“creating”) + -b- (inorganic linking sound) + urát (“…’s Lord, his/her/its Lord”). The sound -b- may have been influenced by búra (“lampshade, dome-like cover”) (compare borít (“to cover or spread over”)). For its form of coinage, compare istenfáját and kutyafáját.[1] The ending is apparently -ja (“…’s, his/her/its”, possessive suffix) + -t (accusative suffix).
Interjection
(a) teremburáját!
- (dated, informal, usually construed with a) zounds! (formerly a swear word; currently more like a gentle, humorous expletive, chiefly to express annoyance; occasionally with a noun specifying the source of the annoyance, expressed with -nak/-nek)
Declension
Sometimes it is used with second-person possessive suffixes: a teremburádat (singular) and a teremburátokat (plural).
References
Further reading
- teremburáját 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