farag

See also: Farag

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *parɜ- (to cut, scrape, groove)[1] + -g (frequentative suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɒrɒɡ]
  • Hyphenation: fa‧rag
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Verb

farag

  1. (transitive) to carve, whittle (wood), sculpt, sharpen (pencil)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Compound words

(With verbal prefixes):

  • elfarag
  • kifarag
  • lefarag
  • megfarag
  • ráfarag

References

  1. Entry #708 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. farag 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

  • 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
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