sirat

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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sír (to weep, cry) +‎ -at (causative suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈʃirɒt]
  • Hyphenation: si‧rat
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Verb

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sirat

  1. (transitive) to bewail, lament, mourn, grieve

Usage notes

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Even though this verb has a causative suffix on the verb sír (to weep, cry), it doesn’t mean “to make someone cry”; instead, (meg)ríkat can be used in this sense.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading

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  • sirat 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

Swedish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from German Zierrat. Cognate of Dutch sieraad.

Noun

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sirat c

  1. ornament, decoration
Declension
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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sirat

  1. supine of sira

Adjective

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sirat

  1. indefinite neuter singular of sirad

References

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