öreg

From a Turkic language or Proto-Uralic. Compare Turkish iri, Erzya сыре (sïre).

• IPA^(key): [ˈørɛɡ]

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• Hyphenation: öreg
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

öreg (comparative öregebb, superlative legöregebb)

1. (chiefly of people) old (not young, having existed or lived for a long time; compare régi (“not new”))

   Synonyms: idős, agg, vén, koros, éltes

   Antonyms: fiatal, ifjú

   Az öreg halász és a tenger ― The Old Man and the Sea (a novella by Ernest Hemingway)

2. (dialectal, archaic) great, big, grand

   Synonym: nagy

   öreg hiba ― big mistake

   öregujj ― big toe

   öregszülő ― grandparent

3. (regional, of food) dense

   Synonym: sűrű

4. (folksy, of times of day) late

   Synonym: késő

   öreg este ― late evening

öreg (plural öregek)

1. old person
2. (colloquial) the leader of a community
3. (often with a possessive suffix) (colloquial) one’s parents, old man or old lady
4. (with a first-person possessive suffix) (colloquial) man, bro (form of address for a person of roughly equal age and status)

   Synonym: öcsém

• régi

• öreg in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.