zabál

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Hungarian

Etymology

First attested in c. 1395. Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian zobati (to peck). With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

Verb

zabál

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to gobble (to eat hastily or greedily)

Conjugation

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • zabál 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