borospohár

Hungarian

Etymology

boros (“wine”) +‎ pohár (“glass”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈboroʃpoɦaːr]
• Hyphenation: bo‧ros‧po‧hár
• Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

borospohár (plural borospoharak)

1. wine glass (a glass vessel specifically used for serving and drinking wine)

Usage notes

The fact it is written as solid indicates the function or purpose, a change from the original, literal meaning, which latter would be expressed by writing the elements separately: boros pohár (“any kind of glass vessel contaminated with or containing wine”).

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	borospohár	borospoharak
accusative	borospoharat	borospoharakat
dative	borospohárnak	borospoharaknak
instrumental	borospohárral	borospoharakkal
causal-final	borospohárért	borospoharakért
translative	borospohárrá	borospoharakká
terminative	borospohárig	borospoharakig
essive-formal	borospohárként	borospoharakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	borospohárban	borospoharakban
superessive	borospoháron	borospoharakon
adessive	borospohárnál	borospoharaknál
illative	borospohárba	borospoharakba
sublative	borospohárra	borospoharakra
allative	borospohárhoz	borospoharakhoz
elative	borospohárból	borospoharakból
delative	borospohárról	borospoharakról
ablative	borospohártól	borospoharaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	borospoháré	borospoharaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	borospoháréi	borospoharakéi

Possessive forms of borospohár
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	borospoharam	borospoharaim
2nd person sing.	borospoharad	borospoharaid
3rd person sing.	borospohara	borospoharai
1st person plural	borospoharunk	borospoharaink
2nd person plural	borospoharatok	borospoharaitok
3rd person plural	borospoharuk	borospoharaik

Further reading

• borospohár 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).