zsír

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Slovene žir (“acorn”), Slovak žir (“fatness”), Ukrainian жир (žyr, “fat”).

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• Rhymes: -iːr

Noun

zsír (countable and uncountable, plural zsírok)

1. fat (a specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue)

   Synonyms: háj, zsiradék

2. (anatomy, chemistry) fat (a lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids)

   zsírsav ― fatty acid

   zsírszövet ― adipose tissue

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Adjective

zsír (comparative zsírabb, superlative legzsírabb)

1. (slang) awesome, cool, rad

   Synonyms: király, menő, vagány, szuper, klassz

Declension

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Further reading

• zsír 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