marok
See also: Marok
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɒrok]
- Hyphenation: ma‧rok
- Rhymes: -ok
Etymology 1
From Proto-Ugric *mᴕrɜ (“hollow of the hand, palm of the hand”) + -k (nominal suffix).[1][2]
Noun
marok (usually uncountable, plural markok)
- (anatomy) hollow of the hand/palm
- (figuratively) grip, hand (as the symbol of power, used in phrases with its inflected forms)
- a markában tart ― to have someone under one's thumb
- (folksy) bundle (a fistful of wheat when harvesting with sickles or scythes; the bundles are tied into sheaves using straw)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | marok | markok |
| accusative | markot | markokat |
| dative | maroknak | markoknak |
| instrumental | marokkal | markokkal |
| causal-final | marokért | markokért |
| translative | marokká | markokká |
| terminative | marokig | markokig |
| essive-formal | marokként | markokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | marokban | markokban |
| superessive | markon | markokon |
| adessive | maroknál | markoknál |
| illative | marokba | markokba |
| sublative | marokra | markokra |
| allative | marokhoz | markokhoz |
| elative | marokból | markokból |
| delative | marokról | markokról |
| ablative | maroktól | markoktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
maroké | markoké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
marokéi | markokéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | markom | markaim |
| 2nd person sing. | markod | markaid |
| 3rd person sing. | marka | markai |
| 1st person plural | markunk | markaink |
| 2nd person plural | markotok | markaitok |
| 3rd person plural | markuk | markaik |
Derived terms
Compound words
- marokszedő
- vasmarok
Expressions
- markába nevet
- markába nyom
- markában tart
- markot szed
- marokra fog
- tartja a markát
Etymology 2
Verb
marok
- first-person singular indicative present indefinite of mar
References
- ^ Entry #1812 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ marok 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
- marok 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.