Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

piros (red) +‎ -ít (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈpiroʃiːt]
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ro‧sít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb edit

pirosít

  1. (transitive) to redden (to make/paint something red; with something: -val/-vel)
    • 1847, Sándor Petőfi, Röpül az úti por (The dust swirls on the road)[1]:
      Kihányta nyergéből a ló a lovagot,.../A fakó port söpri fekete fürtével,/S köveket pirosít homloka vérével.
      The horse threw the knight out of his saddle,.../ He sweeps the pale dust with his black curls, /and reddens the stones with the blood of his forehead.
  2. (transitive) to rouge (to apply red rouge on lips or cheeks as a makeup)

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Further reading edit

  • pirosít 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