őröl

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See also: orol

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • őr (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Hungarian őr (to grind, mill) + -öl (frequentative verb-forming suffix). The verb őr was borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries) in the form of *ävir-.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

őröl

  1. (transitive) to grind, mill
    Synonyms: darál, zúz
  2. (transitive) to pulverize (as a woodworm does to wood)
    Synonyms: porlaszt, elporlaszt, szétporlaszt
  3. (transitive, literary, of emotional pain) to nag, torment, anguish
    Synonyms: kínoz, gyötör, emészt
  4. (transitive, dialectal) to chitchat, chatter, prattle, babble (too much)
    Synonyms: fecseg, trécsel

Conjugation

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Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions

References

  1. ^ őröl in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • őröl 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