French edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ba.lɛk/
  • (file)

Interjection edit

balek

  1. (Informal, vulgar) Clipping of se battre les couilles de.

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish بالق (balık, fish). Modern Turkish spelling is balık.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɒlɛk]
  • Hyphenation: ba‧lek
  • Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun edit

balek (plural balekok)

  1. dupe, mug, sucker (a person who can be easily fooled or deceived)

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative balek balekok
accusative balekot balekokat
dative baleknak balekoknak
instrumental balekkal balekokkal
causal-final balekért balekokért
translative balekká balekokká
terminative balekig balekokig
essive-formal balekként balekokként
essive-modal
inessive balekban balekokban
superessive balekon balekokon
adessive baleknál balekoknál
illative balekba balekokba
sublative balekra balekokra
allative balekhoz balekokhoz
elative balekból balekokból
delative balekról balekokról
ablative balektól balekoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
baleké balekoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
balekéi balekokéi
Possessive forms of balek
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. balekom balekjaim
2nd person sing. balekod balekjaid
3rd person sing. balekja balekjai
1st person plural balekunk balekjaink
2nd person plural balekotok balekjaitok
3rd person plural balekjuk balekjaik

Further reading edit

  • balek 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
  • balek in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)