bakcsó
Hungarian
Etymology
An onomatopoeia imitating the calls of the bird that sound in Hungarian as bak-vak or kvak-vak (in English quok or woc) + -csó (diminutive suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɒkt͡ʃoː]
- Hyphenation: bak‧csó
- Rhymes: -t͡ʃoː
Noun
bakcsó (plural bakcsók)
- black-crowned night heron (a medium-sized heron, Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Synonyms: vakvarjú, kvakvarjú, oláhpap, kakcsó, vakkánya
- any of the birds in the genus Nycticorax; night herons
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bakcsó | bakcsók |
| accusative | bakcsót | bakcsókat |
| dative | bakcsónak | bakcsóknak |
| instrumental | bakcsóval | bakcsókkal |
| causal-final | bakcsóért | bakcsókért |
| translative | bakcsóvá | bakcsókká |
| terminative | bakcsóig | bakcsókig |
| essive-formal | bakcsóként | bakcsókként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | bakcsóban | bakcsókban |
| superessive | bakcsón | bakcsókon |
| adessive | bakcsónál | bakcsóknál |
| illative | bakcsóba | bakcsókba |
| sublative | bakcsóra | bakcsókra |
| allative | bakcsóhoz | bakcsókhoz |
| elative | bakcsóból | bakcsókból |
| delative | bakcsóról | bakcsókról |
| ablative | bakcsótól | bakcsóktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
bakcsóé | bakcsóké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
bakcsóéi | bakcsókéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | bakcsóm | bakcsóim |
| 2nd person sing. | bakcsód | bakcsóid |
| 3rd person sing. | bakcsója | bakcsói |
| 1st person plural | bakcsónk | bakcsóink |
| 2nd person plural | bakcsótok | bakcsóitok |
| 3rd person plural | bakcsójuk | bakcsóik |
References
- ^ bakcsó 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, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- bakcsó 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.
- bakcsó in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).