dandár
Hungarian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish دمدار (dümdar), from Persian دمدار (dumdār, “rear guard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdɒndaːr]
- Rhymes: -aːr
- Hyphenation: dan‧dár
Noun
dandár (plural dandárok)
- brigade (military unit)
- (in the possessive) crowd, army, battalion, heaps, piles, bevy, array (of people, animals of things)
- Synonyms: sereg, tömeg, sokaság, halom, csapat, garmada
- (in the possessive) bulk, mass, majority, large part (of something)
- Synonyms: zöm, (only possessive in this sense) java, nagyja, többség, nagy/túlnyomó rész
- (in the possessive) lion's share, brunt (most important or most intensive part of an activity or process or its time or season)
- Synonyms: oroszlánrész, neheze, legnehezebbje
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | dandár | dandárok |
accusative | dandárt | dandárokat |
dative | dandárnak | dandároknak |
instrumental | dandárral | dandárokkal |
causal-final | dandárért | dandárokért |
translative | dandárrá | dandárokká |
terminative | dandárig | dandárokig |
essive-formal | dandárként | dandárokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | dandárban | dandárokban |
superessive | dandáron | dandárokon |
adessive | dandárnál | dandároknál |
illative | dandárba | dandárokba |
sublative | dandárra | dandárokra |
allative | dandárhoz | dandárokhoz |
elative | dandárból | dandárokból |
delative | dandárról | dandárokról |
ablative | dandártól | dandároktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular | dandáré | dandároké |
non-attributive possessive - plural | dandáréi | dandárokéi |
Possessive forms of dandár | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | dandárom | dandárjaim |
2nd person sing. | dandárod | dandárjaid |
3rd person sing. | dandárja | dandárjai |
1st person plural | dandárunk | dandárjaink |
2nd person plural | dandárotok | dandárjaitok |
3rd person plural | dandárjuk | dandárjaik |
Coordinate terms
- (military units) őrs/tűzcsoport < raj < szakasz < század < zászlóalj < ezred < dandár < hadosztály < hadtest < hadsereg < hadseregcsoport < front
Derived terms
Compound words
- dandártábornok
Further reading
- dandár in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- dandár in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)