bukta

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuktɒ]
• Hyphenation: buk‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Borrowed from Slovak buchta, (plural) buchty. Compare also Czech buchta (“bun”).^[1][2] First attested in c. 1795.^[1]

bukta (plural bukták)

2. jam(-filled) bun

From the buk- stem of bukik (“to miss out on, lose, drop”, colloquial) +‎ -ta (amalgamated noun-forming and possessive suffix).

bukta (uncountable)

2. (literary, archaic) his/her/its fall, downfall, collapse, ruin, defeat, undoing

   Synonym: bukása

or

From a jocular association of bukta (“jam-filled bun”) (see etymology 1) and bukta (“his/her/its fall, downfall”) (see etymology 2).^[3] First attested in 1994.

bukta (plural bukták)

1. (informal) failure, flop (of a work, event, performance, etc.)

   Synonyms: bukás, csőd, kudarc

2. (informal) failure in an exam; failing grade

   Synonym: bukás

3. (informal) bad deal; loss of money

From the buk- stem of bukik (“to miss out on, lose, drop”, colloquial) +‎ -ta (personal suffix).

bukta

1. third-person singular indicative past definite of bukik

This form also occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

• bukta (…) el, el … bukta ― elbukta ― elbukik

• (jam bun): bukta 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.
• (fall, downfall [literary]): bukta 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.
• bukta 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).

• bukten

bukta m or f

1. definite feminine singular of bukt

bukta f

1. definite singular of bukt

bukta (present buktar, preterite buktade, supine buktat, imperative bukta)

1. (often with a particle like ut (“out”), in (“in”), or upp (“up”) to specify a direction) to curve smoothly

Think bulge, but more general, like a rounded indentation or (as a more exotic and rare example) a soft cover on a book that won't lie flat and curves upward.

• bukta in (“to curve inward”)
• bukta ut (“to bulge”)
• inbuktning (“rounded indentation”)
• utbuktning (“bulge”)

• bukt (“bay”)
• buktig

• bågna

• bukta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bukta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bukta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): [bʊqta]

bukta

1. fragment

• Rachel Walker, Round Licencing, Harmony, and Bisyllabic Triggers in Altaic, 2001.