fúr-farag

Hungarian

Etymology

fúr (“to drill”) +‎ farag (“to carve”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfuːrfɒrɒɡ]
• Hyphenation: fúr-‧fa‧rag
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Verb

fúr-farag

1. (intransitive) to whittle, carve (to be busy doing woodwork as a hobby)

   Synonym: barkácsol

2. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively, rare) to correct, polish (to keep refining some work, a piece of writing, in order to remove imperfections)

   Synonyms: javítgat, csiszolgat

Conjugation

Both verbs are conjugated independently, always connected with a hyphen:

Egész nap csak fúrnak-faragnak. ― They are whittling and carving all day long.

Further reading

• fúr-farag 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