furmint

English

Etymology

From Hungarian furmint, from Middle French fromenté (“a type of grape”). Doublet of frumenty.

Noun

furmint (countable and uncountable, plural furmints)

1. A type of grape grown in Hungary, commonly used in tokays.
   • 1958, Thomas Schreiber with Lynton Hudson, Hungary, page 40:

     […] the furmint (muscatel) of Somlo, full of fire and of the noble aroma drawn from the volcanic earth in which the grapes are grown, […]

   • 1975, Zoltán Halász, A Short History of Hungary, page 39:

     […] from the wine regions of the Tokaj mountains (where the "froment" grape, the ancestor of the furmint, was introduced by Walloon settlers) […]

   • 2005, Mary Cech with Jennie Schacht and Tim Patterson, The Wine Lover's Dessert Cookbook, page 20:

     Varietals commonly affected by botrytis include chenin blanc, furmint, muscadelle, muscat, riesling, sauvignon blanc, and semillon.

   • 2009 February 25, Eric Asimov, “Asian Fusion, via the Wine List”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It was made from the furmint grape, which is better known in Hungary’s lusciously sweet tokays, but this was delicate, floral and just right with a tart chicken curry dish.

   • 2016 August 14, David Williams, “The rise of furmint”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     I’m not sure if it qualifies as a trend just yet, but you may have noticed more of the central and eastern European grape variety furmint cropping up in your wine shop in the past couple of years.

2. A white wine made from this grape.

Translations

variety of grape

• Hungarian: furmint (hu)
• Polish: furmint m

variety of wine

• Hungarian: furmint (hu)
• Polish: furmint m

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French froment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfurmint]
• Rhymes: -int
• Hyphenation: fur‧mint

Noun

furmint (countable and uncountable, plural furmintok)

1. A white Hungarian wine grape variety that is most noted widely grown in the Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	furmint	furmintok
accusative	furmintot	furmintokat
dative	furmintnak	furmintoknak
instrumental	furminttal	furmintokkal
causal-final	furmintért	furmintokért
translative	furminttá	furmintokká
terminative	furmintig	furmintokig
essive-formal	furmintként	furmintokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	furmintban	furmintokban
superessive	furminton	furmintokon
adessive	furmintnál	furmintoknál
illative	furmintba	furmintokba
sublative	furmintra	furmintokra
allative	furminthoz	furmintokhoz
elative	furmintból	furmintokból
delative	furmintról	furmintokról
ablative	furminttól	furmintoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	furminté	furmintoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	furmintéi	furmintokéi

Possessive forms of furmint

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	furmintom	furmintjaim
2nd person sing.	furmintod	furmintjaid
3rd person sing.	furmintja	furmintjai
1st person plural	furmintunk	furmintjaink
2nd person plural	furmintotok	furmintjaitok
3rd person plural	furmintjuk	furmintjaik

Further reading

• furmint 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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian furmint.

Noun

furmint m (uncountable)

1. furmint

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	furmint	furmintul
genitive-dative	furmint	furmintului
vocative	furmintule

References

• furmint in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN