See also: zabal

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

First attested in c. 1395. Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian zobati (to peck). With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈzɒbaːl]
  • Hyphenation: za‧bál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb edit

zabál

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to gobble (to eat hastily or greedily)

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

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Further reading edit

  • zabál 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