mert

See also: Mert and mért

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English mert, shortened from merchant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /məːt/

Noun

mert (plural merts)

  1. (Cape Afrikaans) A drug dealer.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin meritum.

Noun

mert m (plural merts)

  1. merit

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛrt]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: mert
  • Rhymes: -ɛrt

Etymology 1

Shortened from meret, an obsolete variant of miért (why).[1]

Conjunction

mert

  1. because (by or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that)
    Becsuktam az ablakot, mert fáztam. or Azért csuktam be az ablakot, mert fáztam.I closed the window because I was cold. (literally, “The reason why I closed the window was that I was cold.”)
    Synonyms: mivel, ugyanis, minthogy, merthogy, hiszen, (partially synonymous) miután
    Coordinate term: (“the reason why”, optionally supplied in the focus position of the main clause) azért
Derived terms
Compound words

See also

Etymology 2

mer (to dare; to ladle) + -t (past-tense and past-participle suffix)

Verb

mert

  1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of mer

Participle

mert

  1. past participle of mer
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative mert mertek
accusative mertet merteket
dative mertnek merteknek
instrumental merttel mertekkel
causal-final mertért mertekért
translative mertté mertekké
terminative mertig mertekig
essive-formal mertként mertekként
essive-modal
inessive mertben mertekben
superessive merten merteken
adessive mertnél merteknél
illative mertbe mertekbe
sublative mertre mertekre
allative merthez mertekhez
elative mertből mertekből
delative mertről mertekről
ablative merttől mertektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
merté merteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
mertéi mertekéi

References

  1. mert 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

  • mert 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

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مرد (mert, man), hence the given name.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mært/, [mæɾ̊t]

Adjective

mert

  1. manly; valiant
  2. (figuratively) man of his word

Declension

References

mert in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

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