pojáca
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1829. Borrowed from Italian pagliaccio, from paglia, from Latin palea.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pojáca (plural pojácák)
- (literary, now derogatory) clown (a performance artist often associated with a circus)
- (rare) doll, puppet (a toy or an ornament in the form of a clown)
- (figuratively, derogatory) clown (a person dressed tastelessly, gaudily)
- (figuratively, derogatory) buffoon, clown (person that cannot be taken seriously)
- Synonym: bohóc
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | pojáca | pojácák |
accusative | pojácát | pojácákat |
dative | pojácának | pojácáknak |
instrumental | pojácával | pojácákkal |
causal-final | pojácáért | pojácákért |
translative | pojácává | pojácákká |
terminative | pojácáig | pojácákig |
essive-formal | pojácaként | pojácákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | pojácában | pojácákban |
superessive | pojácán | pojácákon |
adessive | pojácánál | pojácáknál |
illative | pojácába | pojácákba |
sublative | pojácára | pojácákra |
allative | pojácához | pojácákhoz |
elative | pojácából | pojácákból |
delative | pojácáról | pojácákról |
ablative | pojácától | pojácáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
pojácáé | pojácáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
pojácáéi | pojácákéi |
Possessive forms of pojáca | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | pojácám | pojácáim |
2nd person sing. | pojácád | pojácáid |
3rd person sing. | pojácája | pojácái |
1st person plural | pojácánk | pojácáink |
2nd person plural | pojácátok | pojácáitok |
3rd person plural | pojácájuk | pojácáik |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ pojáca 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]- pojáca 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
- pojáca in Hungarian–English dictionary at SZTAKI
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