teremburáját

Hungarian

Etymology

Contraction; a euphemistic form (minced oath) of terem(tő) (“creating”) +‎ -b- (inorganic linking sound) +‎ urát (“…’s Lord, his/her/its Lord”). The sound -b- may have been influenced by búra (“lampshade, dome-like cover”) (compare borít (“to cover or spread over”)). For its form of coinage, compare istenfáját and kutyafáját.[1] The ending is apparently -ja (“…’s, his/her/its”, possessive suffix) +‎ -t (accusative suffix).

Interjection

(a) teremburáját!

  1. (dated, informal, usually construed with a) zounds! (formerly a swear word; currently more like a gentle, humorous expletive, chiefly to express annoyance; occasionally with a noun specifying the source of the annoyance, expressed with -nak/-nek)

Declension

Sometimes it is used with second-person possessive suffixes: a teremburádat (singular) and a teremburátokat (plural).

References

  1. ^ teremburáját in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

  • teremburáját 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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