borz
See also: борз
Hungarian
borz
Etymology
Borrowed from a Turkic language. Compare Karakhanid بُرْسْمُكْ (borsmuk), Chagatai بورسوق (borsuq), Turkish porsuk, Azerbaijani porsuq, Kazakh борсық (borsyq), Bashkir борһыҡ (borhıq), Uyghur بورسۇق (borsuq) and Chuvash пурӑш (purăš). Ultimately, from Proto-Turkic *borsuk (“badger”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈborz]
- Hyphenation: borz
- Rhymes: -orz
Noun
borz (plural borzok)
- badger, brock: common name for European badger, Eurasian badger (Meles meles)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | borz | borzok |
| accusative | borzot | borzokat |
| dative | borznak | borzoknak |
| instrumental | borzzal | borzokkal |
| causal-final | borzért | borzokért |
| translative | borzzá | borzokká |
| terminative | borzig | borzokig |
| essive-formal | borzként | borzokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | borzban | borzokban |
| superessive | borzon | borzokon |
| adessive | borznál | borzoknál |
| illative | borzba | borzokba |
| sublative | borzra | borzokra |
| allative | borzhoz | borzokhoz |
| elative | borzból | borzokból |
| delative | borzról | borzokról |
| ablative | borztól | borzoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | borzé | borzoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | borzéi | borzokéi |
| Possessive forms of borz | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | borzom | borzaim |
| 2nd person sing. | borzod | borzaid |
| 3rd person sing. | borza | borzai |
| 1st person plural | borzunk | borzaink |
| 2nd person plural | borzotok | borzaitok |
| 3rd person plural | borzuk | borzaik |
Derived terms
Compound words
- bűzösborz
- méhészborz
Expressions
- eurázsiai borz
- európai borz
References
- borz 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, page 90, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “borsuk, borsmuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 368-369
Further reading
- borz 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
- borz 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)