borz

See also: борз

Hungarian
borz

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language. Compare Karakhanid بُرْسْمُكْ (borsmuk), Chagatai بورسوق (borsuq), Turkish porsuk, Azerbaijani porsuq, Kazakh борсық (borsyq), Bashkir борһыҡ (borhıq), Uyghur بورسۇق (borsuq) and Chuvash пурӑш (purăš). Ultimately, from Proto-Turkic *borsuk (“badger”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈborz]
  • Hyphenation: borz
  • Rhymes: -orz

Noun

borz (plural borzok)

  1. badger, brock: common name for European badger, Eurasian badger (Meles meles)

Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative borz borzok
accusative borzot borzokat
dative borznak borzoknak
instrumental borzzal borzokkal
causal-final borzért borzokért
translative borzzá borzokká
terminative borzig borzokig
essive-formal borzként borzokként
essive-modal — —
inessive borzban borzokban
superessive borzon borzokon
adessive borznál borzoknál
illative borzba borzokba
sublative borzra borzokra
allative borzhoz borzokhoz
elative borzból borzokból
delative borzról borzokról
ablative borztól borzoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular		 borzé borzoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		 borzéi borzokéi
Possessive forms of borz
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. borzom borzaim
2nd person sing. borzod borzaid
3rd person sing. borza borzai
1st person plural borzunk borzaink
2nd person plural borzotok borzaitok
3rd person plural borzuk borzaik

Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions

References
  1. borz 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, page 90, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “borsuk, borsmuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 368-369

Further reading
  • borz 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
  • borz in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
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