pojáca
Hungarian
Etymology
First attested in 1829. Borrowed from Italian pagliaccio, from paglia, from Latin palea.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpojaːt͡sɒ]
- Hyphenation: po‧já‧ca
- Rhymes: -t͡sɒ
Noun
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
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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
- pojácaság
- pojácás
- pojácáskodik
References
- 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
- 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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