kosár
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian košara, Slovene košara. The meaning “rejection” came into use in analogy with German Korb (“basket; rejection”), which in turn is due to a medieval custom of giving a bottomless basket as a symbol of unrequited love.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kosár (plural kosarak)
- basket (round lightweight container, especially one that is woven)
- 1896, Dezső Szomory, “Verebek”, in Mesekönyv[1]:
- Aztán gyorsan, kosárral a karján, a piacra sietett.
- Then, with a basket on her arm, she quickly hurried to the market.
- basketful (amount that will fit into a basket)
- 1915, “Adományok”, in Nagykőrös és Vidéke[2], volume 5, number 47:
- Kafan Józsefné: 5 üveg befőtt, 1 kosár dió, 1 zsák krumpli.
- Mrs. József Kafan: 5 jars of pickles, 1 basket of walnuts, 1 sack of potatoes.
- shopping basket (basket for carrying merchandise while shopping)
- 2000, András Papp, “Post factum”, in Holmi[3], volume 12, number 5:
- Már csak egy vevő volt előttem, kosara gyorsan kiürült.
- There was only one customer in front of me now, her shopping basket emptied quickly.
- (by extension, Internet) cart, shopping cart (list of items marked for purchase in an online store)
- 2013, Katalin Kapros Gönczi, Péter Csanádi, “9.2.3 Termék kosárba helyezése”, in Webprogramozás[4], volume II:
- Ahhoz hogy egy terméket a kosárba tudjunk helyezni, regisztrált vevőknek kell lennünk.
- To be able to add an item to your cart, you have to be a registered customer.
- bra cup (part of a bra that covers the breast, also used as a measurement of size)
- 2010, “Fürdőruhamustra: telteknek ajánlunk fazonokat”, in Új Magyar Szó[5], volume 6, number 121:
- Csak azokkal a fazonokkal kísérletezzünk, amelyeknél a melltartó kosara rögzítve van.
- We should only experiment with those styles that have a bra with a fixed cup.
- (in set phrases) rejection, the mitten (typically of a marriage proposal, or refusal to dance)
- 2002, Anikó Lukács, “Nemzeti divat a reformkori Pesten”, in Korall[6], number 10:
- Ugyanezen a bálon két leány minden frakkos férfinak kosarat adott.
- At the same ball, two girls refused to dance with every man who wore a tailcoat.
- (literally, “two girls gave baskets to every man”)
- the basket of a hot-air balloon, a crane or a crow’s nest
- 2018, Donát Tépő, “Becsekkolás”, in Horizontmélye[7]:
- A légijármű kosarában 20-an voltak, amikor a szél elragadta a ballont.
- There were 20 people in the aircraft’s basket when the wind seized the balloon.
- a concept or object relating to the team sport of basketball
- (colloquial) basketball (sport with the objective of putting a ball through a hoop)
- 2006, Dániel Tem, “Kedves sportos Gólya!”, in Ikszikszí[8], volume 11:
- Mint minden évben, természetesen idén is tudsz jelentkezni a legnépszerűbb sportokra: foci, úszás, kosár!
- Certainly, like every year, you can sign up again for the most popular sports: football, swimming, basketball!
- (basketball) basket (circular hoop from which a net is suspended)
- 1996, Ferenc Deák, “Félrecsúszott magyar győzelmi lehetőségek Atlantában”, in Kapu, volume 9, number 9:
- Nevetséges amikor a góliátok nem bedobják, hanem beteszik a labdát a kosárba.
- It is ridiculous when these giants don’t throw but dunk the ball in the basket.
- (basketball) basket (putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points)
- 1963, “Hosszabbítás után vereség az olaszoktól”, in Heti Híradó[9], volume 7, number 41:
- Az első kosarat Temesvári dobta, majd a magyar csapat elhúzott 10:3-ra.
- Temesvári scored the first basket, after which the Hungarian team pulled away to a 10-3 lead.
- (colloquial) basketball (sport with the objective of putting a ball through a hoop)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | kosár | kosarak |
accusative | kosarat | kosarakat |
dative | kosárnak | kosaraknak |
instrumental | kosárral | kosarakkal |
causal-final | kosárért | kosarakért |
translative | kosárrá | kosarakká |
terminative | kosárig | kosarakig |
essive-formal | kosárként | kosarakként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | kosárban | kosarakban |
superessive | kosáron | kosarakon |
adessive | kosárnál | kosaraknál |
illative | kosárba | kosarakba |
sublative | kosárra | kosarakra |
allative | kosárhoz | kosarakhoz |
elative | kosárból | kosarakból |
delative | kosárról | kosarakról |
ablative | kosártól | kosaraktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
kosáré | kosaraké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
kosáréi | kosarakéi |
Possessive forms of kosár | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | kosaram | kosaraim |
2nd person sing. | kosarad | kosaraid |
3rd person sing. | kosara | kosarai |
1st person plural | kosarunk | kosaraink |
2nd person plural | kosaratok | kosaraitok |
3rd person plural | kosaruk | kosaraik |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
Expressions
References
[edit]- ^ kosár 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]- kosár 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
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