goromba

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian grub (“rough, rude”), Slovak hrubý (“coarse, rough, rude”), from Proto-Slavic *grǫbъ. Hungarian most likely borrowed the feminine form of the Slavic adjective.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡorombɒ]
  • Hyphenation: go‧rom‧ba
  • Rhymes: -bɒ

Adjective

goromba (comparative gorombább, superlative leggorombább)

  1. (of a person) rough, rude, boorish
    Synonyms: nyers, durva, faragatlan, kíméletlen, modortalan
  2. (of an object, dialectal) rough (not smooth)
    Synonyms: érdes, durva

Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative goromba gorombák
accusative gorombát gorombákat
dative gorombának gorombáknak
instrumental gorombával gorombákkal
causal-final gorombáért gorombákért
translative gorombává gorombákká
terminative gorombáig gorombákig
essive-formal gorombaként gorombákként
essive-modal gorombául —
inessive gorombában gorombákban
superessive gorombán gorombákon
adessive gorombánál gorombáknál
illative gorombába gorombákba
sublative gorombára gorombákra
allative gorombához gorombákhoz
elative gorombából gorombákból
delative gorombáról gorombákról
ablative gorombától gorombáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular		 gorombáé gorombáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		 gorombáéi gorombákéi

Derived terms
Expressions
  • goromba, mint a pokróc

References
  1. goromba in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading
  • goromba 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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