vörös

See also: Võros and -voros

Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From véres (“bloody”), from vér (“blood”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈvørøʃ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: vö‧rös
  • Homophone: Weöres
  • Rhymes: -øʃ

Adjective

vörös (comparative vörösebb, superlative legvörösebb)

  1. red (often specifically a darker red than piros)

Usage notes

"In Hungarian, piros [...is] associated with blood inside the body, […] whereas vörös is associated with blood spilled [...and] the fact that after a while, blood spilled tends to get darker could explain the inclusion of darker shades in vörös."[1] Common collocations include vörös csillag (red star symbol) and vörös zászló (red flag), vörös ördög (red devil) and vörös rózsa (red rose).[1]

Declension

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

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Noun

vörös (plural vörösök)

  1. red (often specifically a darker red than piros)

Declension

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

Possessive forms of vörös
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. vörösöm vöröseim
2nd person sing. vörösöd vöröseid
3rd person sing. vöröse vörösei
1st person plural vörösünk vöröseink
2nd person plural vörösötök vöröseitek
3rd person plural vörösük vöröseik

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)
     fehér      szürke      fekete
             piros​/​Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value); 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. 2006, Anna Wierzbicka, The Semantics of Colour: A New Paradigm, in Progress in Colour Studies (IBSN 90 272 3239 3), pages 11 and 12

Further reading
  • vörös 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
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