szirup
Hungarian
Etymology
A wanderword. Via Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Compare German Sirup, French sirop, Italian sciroppo.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsirup]
- Hyphenation: szi‧rup
- Rhymes: -up
Noun
szirup (plural szirupok)
- (cooking) syrup (a thick liquid with a high sugar content)
- (medicine) syrup (a medicinal preparation)
- (figuratively, rare, derogatory) treacle (cloying sentimentality in behavior or in a literary composition)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | szirup | szirupok |
| accusative | szirupot | szirupokat |
| dative | szirupnak | szirupoknak |
| instrumental | sziruppal | szirupokkal |
| causal-final | szirupért | szirupokért |
| translative | sziruppá | szirupokká |
| terminative | szirupig | szirupokig |
| essive-formal | szirupként | szirupokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | szirupban | szirupokban |
| superessive | szirupon | szirupokon |
| adessive | szirupnál | szirupoknál |
| illative | szirupba | szirupokba |
| sublative | szirupra | szirupokra |
| allative | sziruphoz | szirupokhoz |
| elative | szirupból | szirupokból |
| delative | szirupról | szirupokról |
| ablative | sziruptól | szirupoktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
szirupé | szirupoké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
szirupéi | szirupokéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | szirupom | szirupjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | szirupod | szirupjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | szirupja | szirupjai |
| 1st person plural | szirupunk | szirupjaink |
| 2nd person plural | szirupotok | szirupjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | szirupjuk | szirupjaik |
Derived terms
Compound words
References
- ^ szirup 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
- szirup 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.