dandár
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish دمدار (dümdar), from Persian دمدار (domdâr, “rear guard”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dandár (plural dandárok)
- brigade (military unit)
- (in the possessive) crowd, army, battalion, heaps, piles, bevy, array (of people, animals of things)
- (in the possessive) bulk, mass, majority, large part (of something)
- (in the possessive) lion's share, brunt (most important or most intensive part of an activity or process or its time or season)
- Synonyms: oroszlánrész, neheze, legnehezebbje
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | dandár | dandárok |
| accusative | dandárt | dandárokat |
| dative | dandárnak | dandároknak |
| instrumental | dandárral | dandárokkal |
| causal-final | dandárért | dandárokért |
| translative | dandárrá | dandárokká |
| terminative | dandárig | dandárokig |
| essive-formal | dandárként | dandárokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | dandárban | dandárokban |
| superessive | dandáron | dandárokon |
| adessive | dandárnál | dandároknál |
| illative | dandárba | dandárokba |
| sublative | dandárra | dandárokra |
| allative | dandárhoz | dandárokhoz |
| elative | dandárból | dandárokból |
| delative | dandárról | dandárokról |
| ablative | dandártól | dandároktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
dandáré | dandároké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
dandáréi | dandárokéi |
| Possessive forms of dandár | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | dandárom | dandárjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | dandárod | dandárjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | dandárja | dandárjai |
| 1st person plural | dandárunk | dandárjaink |
| 2nd person plural | dandárotok | dandárjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | dandárjuk | dandárjaik |
Coordinate terms edit
- (military units) őrs/tűzcsoport < raj < szakasz < század < zászlóalj < ezred < dandár < hadosztály < hadtest < hadsereg < hadseregcsoport < front
Derived terms edit
Compound words
Further reading edit
- dandár 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
- dandár 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)