fúr-farag

Hungarian

Etymology

Verb-verb compound, fúr (“to drill”) +‎ farag (“to carve”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfuːrfɒrɒɡ]
  • Hyphenation: fúr-‧fa‧rag
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Verb

fúr-farag

  1. (intransitive) to whittle, carve (to be busy doing woodwork as a hobby)
    Synonym: barkácsol
  2. (ambitransitive, figuratively, rare) to correct, polish (to keep refining some work, a piece of writing, in order to remove imperfections)
    Synonyms: javítgat, csiszolgat

Conjugation

Both verbs are conjugated independently, always connected with a hyphen:

Egész nap csak fúrnak-faragnak. ― They are whittling and carving all day long.

Further reading

  • fúr-farag 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.
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