sereg

See also: šereg

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Turkic language, compare Old Turkic [script needed] (çerig, “soldier, soldiery, army”). Cf. also ᠵᠡᠷᠭᠡ (ǰerge).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɛrɛɡ]
• Hyphenation: se‧reg
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

sereg (plural seregek)

1. (military) army

   Synonym: hadsereg

2. flock, crowd, multitude (a large number of people)

   Synonyms: tömeg, sokaság

3. flock (e.g. of birds or locusts)
4. heap, pile, lot (great number of things)

   Synonyms: halom, rakás, rengeteg

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	sereg	seregek
accusative	sereget	seregeket
dative	seregnek	seregeknek
instrumental	sereggel	seregekkel
causal-final	seregért	seregekért
translative	sereggé	seregekké
terminative	seregig	seregekig
essive-formal	seregként	seregekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	seregben	seregekben
superessive	seregen	seregeken
adessive	seregnél	seregeknél
illative	seregbe	seregekbe
sublative	seregre	seregekre
allative	sereghez	seregekhez
elative	seregből	seregekből
delative	seregről	seregekről
ablative	seregtől	seregektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	seregé	seregeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	seregéi	seregekéi

Possessive forms of sereg
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	seregem	seregeim
2nd person sing.	sereged	seregeid
3rd person sing.	serege	seregei
1st person plural	seregünk	seregeink
2nd person plural	seregetek	seregeitek
3rd person plural	seregük	seregeik

Coordinate terms

• (collective terms for animals) csapat and sereg (generic), csorda, csürhe, falka, gulya, horda, konda, ménes, nyáj, raj

Derived terms

• seregnyi
• seregű

 

Compound words

• angyalsereg
• gyermeksereg
• hadsereg
• seregbontó
• vendégsereg
• védősereg

 

Descendants

• → Polish: szereg
  • → Russian: шере́нга (šerénga)
    • → Eastern Mari: шеренге (šerenge)
    • → Ukrainian: шере́нга (šerénha)
• → Romanian: șirag
• → Serbo-Croatian: šèreg
• → Slovene: šèreg

Further reading

• sereg 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