sugár

See also: sugar

Hungarian

Etymology

súg (“to whisper”) +‎ -ár (noun-forming suffix). The verb súg has a sound-immitating origin of rustling sound, so the original meaning of sugár may have been a rustling object. The several other current meanings are the result of a name transfer process. The geometry sense of radius was patterned after Latin, compare radius (“ray; staff, rod; spoke of a wheel”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʃuɡaːr]
Hyphenation: su‧gár

Noun

sugár (plural sugarak)

ray, beam (of light or radiation)
jet, spurt, stream (of liquid)
(geometry) radius (a line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	sugár	sugarak
accusative	sugarat	sugarakat
dative	sugárnak	sugaraknak
instrumental	sugárral	sugarakkal
causal-final	sugárért	sugarakért
translative	sugárrá	sugarakká
terminative	sugárig	sugarakig
essive-formal	sugárként	sugarakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	sugárban	sugarakban
superessive	sugáron	sugarakon
adessive	sugárnál	sugaraknál
illative	sugárba	sugarakba
sublative	sugárra	sugarakra
allative	sugárhoz	sugarakhoz
elative	sugárból	sugarakból
delative	sugárról	sugarakról
ablative	sugártól	sugaraktól

Possessive forms of sugár
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	sugaram	sugaraim
2nd person sing.	sugarad	sugaraid
3rd person sing.	sugara	sugarai
1st person plural	sugarunk	sugaraink
2nd person plural	sugaratok	sugaraitok
3rd person plural	sugaruk	sugaraik

Derived terms

sugároz
sugárzik
sugarú

(Compound words):

fénysugár
holdsugár
katódsugár
napsugár
röntgensugár

References

Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN