csupa
Hungarian
Etymology
Unknown.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃupɒ]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -pɒ
- Hyphenation: csu‧pa
Adjective
csupa (not comparable)
- all (used before the names of people, objects or things to indicate that the statement is understood to apply to every one of them without exception, or – exaggerating – to express as if it were valid for all of them without exception)
- Csupa hazugság volt, amit mondtak. ― What they said was all lies.
- 1913, Géza Gárdonyi, Szunyoghy miatyánkja[1]:
- Csupa durvaság s butaság minden szavuk.
- All their words are full of rudeness and stupidity.
- all (as an exaggeration, to enhance qualification, especially before names of substances)
- all, full of (in set phrases as an intensifier)
- Csupa fül vagyok. ― I'm all ears.
- Csupa élet ez a város. ― This city is full of life.
Derived terms
Expressions
Adverb
csupa (not comparable)
- merely, purely (expressing that no other circumstances other than the one in question need be considered)
References
- ^ csupa in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.
Further reading
- csupa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
- csupa in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).