fúr-farag
Hungarian
Etymology
fúr (“to drill”) + farag (“to carve”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfuːrfɒrɒɡ]
- Hyphenation: fúr-‧fa‧rag
Verb
fúr-farag
- (intransitive) to whittle, carve (to be busy doing woodwork as a hobby)
- Synonym: barkácsol
- (transitive, intransitive, figuratively, rare) to correct, polish (to keep refining some work, a piece of writing, in order to remove imperfections)
- Synonyms: javítgat, csiszolgat
Conjugation
Both verbs are conjugated independently, always connected with a hyphen:
- Egész nap csak fúrnak-faragnak. ― They are whittling and carving all day long.