szék

Hungarian

szék

Etymology

From a Turkic language, from Proto-Turkic *sekü (stone bench, pedestal). Compare Turkish seki (stone seat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈseːk]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: szék
  • Rhymes: -eːk

Noun

szék (plural székek)

  1. chair
  2. seat (in a theater or in the Parliament)
    Synonyms: ülés, hely
  3. (literally or figuratively) seat (of an office-holder, e.g. a minister, a bishop, a judge, a president, or a Member of the Academy)
    Coordinate terms: trón, (“throne”) trónszék
  4. (archaic, today only in compounds) board, court of law, tribunal (a committee or assembly for consultation or making judgment)
    Synonyms: testület, bizottság, bíróság, döntőbíróság
    Hyponyms: esküdtszék, ítélőszék, törvényszék, semmítőszék, számvevőszék
  5. (archaic, today only in compounds) stand, support, prop
    Synonyms: állvány, tartó
    Hyponyms: szövőszék, mészárszék

Declension

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Possessive forms of szék
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. székem székeim
2nd person sing. széked székeid
3rd person sing. széke székei
1st person plural székünk székeink
2nd person plural széketek székeitek
3rd person plural székük székeik

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • (chair, seat): szék 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
  • (rare, regional alternative form of szik (the inside part of the stalks and branches of plants)): szék , redirecting to (2): szik 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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