szép
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain.
- Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śeppä (“skilled”) through Proto-Ugric *seppä. Hence also Proto-Samic *čeappē (“skillful”) and Proto-Finnic *seppä (“smith”).[1][2] This explanation faces semantic difficulties.
- Alternatively from a Turkic language, whence Chuvash шеп (šep, “beautiful”).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]szép (comparative szebb, superlative legszebb)
- beautiful
- Antonym: csúnya
- (as a prefix) great-great-great-grand- (the grandparent of one's great-grandparent or the grandchild of one's great-grandchild)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | szép | szépek |
accusative | szépet | szépeket |
dative | szépnek | szépeknek |
instrumental | széppel | szépekkel |
causal-final | szépért | szépekért |
translative | széppé | szépekké |
terminative | szépig | szépekig |
essive-formal | szépként | szépekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | szépben | szépekben |
superessive | szépen | szépeken |
adessive | szépnél | szépeknél |
illative | szépbe | szépekbe |
sublative | szépre | szépekre |
allative | széphez | szépekhez |
elative | szépből | szépekből |
delative | szépről | szépekről |
ablative | széptől | szépektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
szépé | szépeké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
szépéi | szépekéi |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
Expressions
References
[edit]- ^ Entry #956 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ szép in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
- ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “seppä”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[1] (in Finnish)
- ^ “Do szép from Hungarian and زیبا (zeːbɑː) from Persian have the same origin?”, in Quora[2], 2023 January 31, archived from the original on 2023-11-07
Further reading
[edit]- szép in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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