goromba
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian grub (“rough, rude”), Slovak hrubý (“coarse, rough, rude”), from Proto-Slavic *grǫbъ. Hungarian most likely borrowed the feminine form of the Slavic adjective.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡorombɒ]
- Hyphenation: go‧rom‧ba
- Rhymes: -bɒ
Adjective
goromba (comparative gorombább, superlative leggorombább)
- (of a person) rough, rude, boorish
- Synonyms: nyers, durva, faragatlan, kíméletlen, modortalan
- (of an object, dialectal) rough (not smooth)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | goromba | gorombák |
| accusative | gorombát | gorombákat |
| dative | gorombának | gorombáknak |
| instrumental | gorombával | gorombákkal |
| causal-final | gorombáért | gorombákért |
| translative | gorombává | gorombákká |
| terminative | gorombáig | gorombákig |
| essive-formal | gorombaként | gorombákként |
| essive-modal | gorombául | — |
| inessive | gorombában | gorombákban |
| superessive | gorombán | gorombákon |
| adessive | gorombánál | gorombáknál |
| illative | gorombába | gorombákba |
| sublative | gorombára | gorombákra |
| allative | gorombához | gorombákhoz |
| elative | gorombából | gorombákból |
| delative | gorombáról | gorombákról |
| ablative | gorombától | gorombáktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
gorombáé | gorombáké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
gorombáéi | gorombákéi |
Derived terms
Expressions
- goromba, mint a pokróc
References
- ^ goromba in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
Further reading
- goromba 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.
- goromba 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).