Etymology

From Proto-UgricCategory:Hungarian terms inherited from Proto-Ugric#OREGCategory:Hungarian terms derived from Proto-Ugric#OREG *üräŋɜ (“big, old”), whence also Proto-Khanty *ürǝɣ (> Northern Khanty ар (ar, “much, many”)) and Proto-Mansi *ärǝɣ (> Northern Mansi арыг (aryg, “extra, excess”)), derived from Proto-UralicCategory:Hungarian terms derived from Proto-Uralic#OREG *ürä- (“big, old”) (whence Proto-Samoyedic *iräj (“grandfather”)).^[1] Alternatively, and less likely, from a TurkicCategory:Hungarian terms derived from Turkic languages#OREG language. Compare Turkish iri, Erzya сыре (sïŕe).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈørɛɡ]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#OREG

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  Category:Hungarian terms with audio pronunciation#OREG
• Hyphenation: öreg
• Rhymes: -ɛɡCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛɡ#OREGCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛɡ/2 syllables#OREG

Adjective

öregCategory:Hungarian lemmas#OREGCategory:Hungarian adjectives#OREGCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#OREGCategory:Pages with entries#ÖREGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ÖREG (comparative öregebb, superlative legöregebb)

1. (chiefly of people) old (not young, having existed or lived for a long time; compare régi (“not new”))

   Synonyms: idős, agg, vén, koros, éltes

   Antonyms: fiatal, ifjú

   Az öreg halász és a tenger ― The Old Man and the Sea (a novella by Ernest Hemingway)Category:Hungarian terms with usage examples#OREG

2. (dialectalCategory:Hungarian dialectal terms#OREG, archaicCategory:Hungarian terms with archaic senses#OREG) great, big, grand

   Synonym: nagy

   öreg hiba ― big mistakeCategory:Hungarian terms with usage examples#OREG

   öregujj ― big toeCategory:Hungarian terms with usage examples#OREG

   öregszülő ― grandparentCategory:Hungarian terms with usage examples#OREG

3. (regionalCategory:Regional Hungarian#OREG, of food) dense

   Synonym: sűrű

4. (folksy, of times of day) late

   Synonym: késő

   öreg este ― late eveningCategory:Hungarian terms with usage examples#OREG

Noun

öreg (plural öregek)Category:Hungarian lemmas#OREGCategory:Hungarian nouns#OREGCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#OREGCategory:Pages with entries#ÖREGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ÖREG

1. old person
2. (colloquialCategory:Hungarian colloquialisms#OREG) the leader of a community
3. (often with a possessive suffix)Category:Hungarian noun senses formed with possessive suffixes#OREG (colloquialCategory:Hungarian colloquialisms#OREG) one’s parents, old man or old lady
4. (with a first-person possessive suffix)Category:Hungarian noun senses formed with possessive suffixes#OREG (colloquialCategory:Hungarian colloquialisms#OREG) man, bro (form of address for a person of roughly equal age and status)

   Synonym: öcsémCategory:Hungarian links with manual fragments#ÖREG

See also

• régi

References

Further reading

• öreg 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.