teremburáját

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Contraction; a euphemistic form (minced oath) of terem(tő) (“creating”) +‎ -b- (inorganic linking sound) +‎ urát (“…’s Lord, his/her/its Lord”). The sound -b- may have been influenced by búra (“lampshade, dome-like cover”) (compare borít (“to cover or spread over”)). For its form of coinage, compare istenfáját and kutyafáját.^[1] The ending is apparently -ja (“…’s, his/her/its”, possessive suffix) +‎ -t (accusative suffix).

Interjection edit

(a) teremburáját!

(dated, informal, usually construed with a) zounds! (formerly a swear word; currently more like a gentle, humorous expletive, chiefly to express annoyance; occasionally with a noun specifying the source of the annoyance, expressed with -nak/-nek)

Declension edit

Sometimes it is used with second-person possessive suffixes: a teremburádat (singular) and a teremburátokat (plural).

References edit

^ teremburáját in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations