kofa
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of unknown origin.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kofa (plural kofák)
- a woman who sells vegetables, fish, etc. in a market, a vendor
- (by extension) gossip, chatterbox
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | kofa | kofák |
accusative | kofát | kofákat |
dative | kofának | kofáknak |
instrumental | kofával | kofákkal |
causal-final | kofáért | kofákért |
translative | kofává | kofákká |
terminative | kofáig | kofákig |
essive-formal | kofaként | kofákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | kofában | kofákban |
superessive | kofán | kofákon |
adessive | kofánál | kofáknál |
illative | kofába | kofákba |
sublative | kofára | kofákra |
allative | kofához | kofákhoz |
elative | kofából | kofákból |
delative | kofáról | kofákról |
ablative | kofától | kofáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
kofáé | kofáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
kofáéi | kofákéi |
Possessive forms of kofa | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | kofám | kofáim |
2nd person sing. | kofád | kofáid |
3rd person sing. | kofája | kofái |
1st person plural | kofánk | kofáink |
2nd person plural | kofátok | kofáitok |
3rd person plural | kofájuk | kofáik |
References
[edit]- ^ kofa 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
[edit]- kofa 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
Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]kofa f (genitive singular kofu, nominative plural kofur)
Declension
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]kofa m
- indefinite accusative singular of kofi
- indefinite dative singular of kofi
- indefinite genitive singular of kofi
- indefinite accusative plural of kofi
- indefinite genitive plural of kofi
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوغه (kova).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kȍfa f (Cyrillic spelling ко̏фа)
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hungarian kofa, further origin unknown. First attested in the 19th century.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kofa f
- (colloquial) vendor, female stallholder
- Synonym: trhovkyňa
Declension
[edit]Declension of kofa (pattern žena)
References
[edit]- ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “kofa”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 274
Further reading
[edit]- “kofa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
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