Hungarian

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 asztal on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

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Borrowing from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *stolъ. The user interface sense is a semantic loan from English desktop (literally desk, table).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɒstɒl]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒl
  • Hyphenation: asz‧tal

Noun

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asztal (plural asztalok)

  1. table, desk (in a flat, whether a living room or a kitchen, or in an office or that of a teacher)
    Synonym: pad (desk of school students, traditionally built together with the seat)
    Hypernym: (piece of furniture) bútor
    Meronyms: (tabletop) lap, (leg) láb
    Coordinate term: (chair) szék
  2. (graphical user interface) desktop (main graphical user interface of an operating system)

Declension

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Possessive forms of asztal
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. asztalom asztalaim
2nd person sing. asztalod asztalaid
3rd person sing. asztala asztalai
1st person plural asztalunk asztalaink
2nd person plural asztalotok asztalaitok
3rd person plural asztaluk asztalaik

Derived terms

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Compound words with this term at the beginning

Descendants

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  • Ottoman Turkish: اسطال (astal)

Further reading

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  • asztal 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.
  • asztal 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 2026).