bogrács

bogrács (plural bogrács)

1. Alternative form of bogracs.
   • 1965, Esquire, volume 64, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130, columns 1–2:

     Nomadizing Hungarian shepherds and fishermen were perhaps the first people who cooked a gulyás in their bogrács.

   • 1969, Hungarian Foreign Trade, volumes 20–21, Budapest: Hungarian Chamber of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     In the evening they moored their punts to the river bank, and at the water’s edge the fishermen made their supper in bogrács (cooking pans) over an open fire.

   • 2023, Gabor Bartos, “Successful Hannukah Soup Kitchen Event and the New Year Eve Ball 1939”, in Stigmata of Auschwitz, part 2, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:

     He was cooking the soup outside in the cold on^[sic] front of the porch in a bogrács (3 legged cauldron) and when he finished then he served it with Elisabeth’s freshly made pasta.

   • 2024, All Complete Guides, Learn to Speak and Write Hungarian in 30 Days, →ISBN, page 229:

     Stews, soups, and braised dishes are often prepared in a bogrács, a traditional cauldron, over an open fire.

From Ottoman Turkish باقراج (bakrac, “copper bucket”), from باقر (bakır, “copper”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈboɡraːt͡ʃ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bog‧rács
• Rhymes: -aːt͡ʃ

bogrács (plural bográcsok)

1. cauldron (large suspended metal pot for cooking over an open fire)

• → English: bogracs, bogrács
• → Polish: bogracz
• → Ukrainian: бограч (bohrač)

• bogrács 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.
• bogrács in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).