barkochba
Hungarian
Etymology
From Hebrew בר כוכבא.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɒrkoxbɒ], [ˈbɒrkoːbɒ], [ˈbɒrkobɒ]
- Hyphenation: bar‧koch‧ba
- Rhymes: -bɒ
Noun
barkochba (plural barkochbák)
- A guessing game (similar to twenty questions) in which a player comes up with a word (typically a living organism, an object, or a concept), while the other player(s) must figure it out by asking questions only to be answered with igen (“yes”) or nem (“no”). (In the easier version, some other replies are allowed, too: is (“also; i.e. partly”), nem jellemző (“untypical; typically not”), and nem tudom (“I don’t know”).) The player has only one opportunity to guess it when they feel positive enough about it (rákérdez (“to have a go at it”)) but they lose if it is unsuccessful.
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | barkochba | barkochbák |
| accusative | barkochbát | barkochbákat |
| dative | barkochbának | barkochbáknak |
| instrumental | barkochbával | barkochbákkal |
| causal-final | barkochbáért | barkochbákért |
| translative | barkochbává | barkochbákká |
| terminative | barkochbáig | barkochbákig |
| essive-formal | barkochbaként | barkochbákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | barkochbában | barkochbákban |
| superessive | barkochbán | barkochbákon |
| adessive | barkochbánál | barkochbáknál |
| illative | barkochbába | barkochbákba |
| sublative | barkochbára | barkochbákra |
| allative | barkochbához | barkochbákhoz |
| elative | barkochbából | barkochbákból |
| delative | barkochbáról | barkochbákról |
| ablative | barkochbától | barkochbáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | barkochbáé | barkochbáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | barkochbáéi | barkochbákéi |
| Possessive forms of barkochba | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | barkochbám | barkochbáim |
| 2nd person sing. | barkochbád | barkochbáid |
| 3rd person sing. | barkochbája | barkochbái |
| 1st person plural | barkochbánk | barkochbáink |
| 2nd person plural | barkochbátok | barkochbáitok |
| 3rd person plural | barkochbájuk | barkochbáik |
Derived terms
- barkochbázik
- kibarkochbáz
See also
- twenty questions
Further reading
- barkohba 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
- barkochba 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)