gazda

See also: Gazda and gazdă

Hungarian

Etymology

First attested in c. 1177. Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Proto-Slavic *gostьpoda. See Slovak gazda, Serbo-Croatian gazda.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡɒzdɒ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: gaz‧da
  • Rhymes: -dɒ

Noun

gazda (plural gazdák)

  1. master
  2. farmer
  3. host (in the expression házigazda)

Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative gazda gazdák
accusative gazdát gazdákat
dative gazdának gazdáknak
instrumental gazdával gazdákkal
causal-final gazdáért gazdákért
translative gazdává gazdákká
terminative gazdáig gazdákig
essive-formal gazdaként gazdákként
essive-modal — —
inessive gazdában gazdákban
superessive gazdán gazdákon
adessive gazdánál gazdáknál
illative gazdába gazdákba
sublative gazdára gazdákra
allative gazdához gazdákhoz
elative gazdából gazdákból
delative gazdáról gazdákról
ablative gazdától gazdáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular		 gazdáé gazdáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		 gazdáéi gazdákéi
Possessive forms of gazda
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. gazdám gazdáim
2nd person sing. gazdád gazdáid
3rd person sing. gazdája gazdái
1st person plural gazdánk gazdáink
2nd person plural gazdátok gazdáitok
3rd person plural gazdájuk gazdáik

Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions

Descendants
  • → Romanian: gazdă

References
  1. gazda 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
  • gazda 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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian gazda,[1][2] from a Slavic language; see Proto-Slavic *gostьpoda.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaz.da/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -azda
  • Syllabification: gaz‧da

Noun

gazda m pers (female equivalent gaździna)

  1. (agriculture, Podhale) shepherd
    Synonym: pasterz

Declension
Declension of gazda
singular plural
nominative gazda gazdowie/gazdy
genitive gazdy gazdów
dative gaździe gazdom
accusative gazdę gazdów
instrumental gazdą gazdami
locative gaździe gazdach
vocative gazdo gazdowie/gazdy

References
  1. gazda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  2. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “gazda”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

Further reading
  • gazda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian gazda, from a Slavic language; see Proto-Slavic *gostьpoda.

Noun

gȁzda m (Cyrillic spelling га̏зда)

  1. landlord
  2. master
  3. host
  4. (colloquial) boss, bossman, head honcho

Declension
Declension of gazda
singular plural
nominative gazda gazde
genitive gazde gazda
dative gazdi gazdama
accusative gazdu gazde
vocative gazdo gazde
locative gazdi gazdama
instrumental gazdom gazdama

See also

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian gazda, from a Slavic language; see Proto-Slavic *gostьpoda.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡazda/

Noun

gazda m anim (genitive singular gazdu, nominative plural gazdovia, genitive plural gazdov, declension pattern of hrdina)

  1. host

Declension
Declension of gazda
singular plural
nominative gazda gazdovia
genitive gazdu gazdov
dative gazdovi gazdom
accusative gazdu gazdov
locative gazdovi gazdoch
instrumental gazdom gazdami

Derived terms
  • gazdovský
  • gazdík
  • gazdíček

Further reading
  • “gazda”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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