lábad

See also: labad

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlaːbɒd]
  • Hyphenation: lá‧bad
  • Rhymes: -ɒd

Etymology 1

From Old Hungarian lább (“to swim, float, flow, expand, wade”) + -ad (verbal suffix); the former being an obsolete verb form of the present-day noun láb (“leg, foot”).[1]

Alternative forms

  • lábbad (folksy, archaic)

Verb

lábad

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of úszik, lebeg (“float [on the water or other liquid]”) [1527][1]
  2. (intransitive) Only used in könnybe lábad a szeme: to flow, swim, well up (used with -ba/-be) [from 1549][1]
    Könnybe lábadt a szemem. ― Tears filled my eyes./Tears welled up in my eyes.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, construed with fel-) Synonym of felülkerekedik (“to gain the upper hand”) [1552][1]
  4. (intransitive, obsolete, construed with fel-) Synonym of fenn/fent van (“to be up, awake, out of bed”) [1639][1]
  5. (intransitive, archaic, rare, construed with fel-) Synonym of felépül, felgyógyul (“to recover from illness, to be up and about”) [1685][1]
Conjugation
Derived terms
With verbal prefixes
  • fellábad (obsolete or archaic)
Expressions
  • könnybe lábad a szeme
  • lábal → kilábal

Etymology 2

láb (“leg, foot”) +‎ -ad (“your”, possessive suffix)

Noun

lábad

  1. second-person singular single-possession possessive of láb
Declension
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lábad —
accusative lábadat —
dative lábadnak —
instrumental lábaddal —
causal-final lábadért —
translative lábaddá —
terminative lábadig —
essive-formal lábadként —
essive-modal lábadul —
inessive lábadban —
superessive lábadon —
adessive lábadnál —
illative lábadba —
sublative lábadra —
allative lábadhoz —
elative lábadból —
delative lábadról —
ablative lábadtól —
non-attributive
possessive - singular
lábadé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural
lábadéi —

References

  1. lábad 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

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