See also: Farag

Hungarian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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farag

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

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Compound words

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References

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  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

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  • 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