fehér

See also: Feher and Fehér

Hungarian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *päjɜ (“white”).[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛɦeːr]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: fe‧hér
  • Rhymes: -eːr

Adjective

fehér (comparative fehérebb, superlative legfehérebb)

  1. white
    Kérek egy fehér Ferrarit. ― A white Ferrari, please.
  2. Caucasian
    Mi van, nem láttál még fehér embert? ― What’s the matter? Haven’t you ever seen a white guy?

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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Noun

fehér (plural fehérek)

  1. white (the color of snow or milk, the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths)
    A fehér a legvilágosabb szín. ― White is the brightest color.
  2. a Caucasian person
    Ebbe az iskolába fehérek és feketék is járnak. ― In this school there are both black and white children.

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Possessive forms of fehér
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. fehérem fehérjeim
2nd person sing. fehéred fehérjeid
3rd person sing. fehérje fehérjei
1st person plural fehérünk fehérjeink
2nd person plural fehéretek fehérjeitek
3rd person plural fehérjük fehérjeik

The earlier, more archaic variant is without j:[2]

Possessive forms of fehér
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. fehérem fehéreim
2nd person sing. fehéred fehéreid
3rd person sing. fehére fehérei
1st person plural fehérünk fehéreink
2nd person plural fehéretek fehéreitek
3rd person plural fehérük fehéreik

See also
Colors in Hungarian · színek (terms that are not originally color names are usually supplemented with színű (“-colored”) or the nearest color name; less common names are marked in small) (layout · text)
     Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)      szürke      fekete
             piros​/​vörös; karmazsin​/​bíborvörös              narancssárga; barna              (citrom)sárga; krém-/vajszínű
             citromzöld              zöld              mentazöld
             cián​/​kékeszöld; zöldeskék              azúr(kék)​/​égszínkék              kék
             ibolya(sz.); indigó(sz.)​/​kékeslila              bíbor(sz.)​/​bordó; lila              rózsaszín

References
  1. Entry #717 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. foga fehére ~ foga fehérje (e-nyelv.hu)
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