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marok

  1. cup

Inflection of marok (Chungli)

| | Affirmative | Negative | | | | ------------------ | ------------------- | ----------------------- | --------- | | Past | Simple | marok | memarok | | Perfect | marokogo | memarokogo | | | Present | Simple | maroker | memaroker | | Progressive | marokdar marokdagi | memarokdar memarokdagi | | | Future/infinitive | maroktsü | memaroktsü | | | Imperative | marokang | temarok | | | Present participle | maroka | memaroki | | | Conditional | marokramarokrabang | memarokramemarokrabang | |

marok

From Proto-Ugric *mᴕrɜ (“hollow of the hand, palm of the hand”) + -k (nominal suffix).[1][2]

marok (usually uncountable, plural markok)

  1. (anatomy) hollow of the hand/palm
  2. (figuratively) grip, hand (as the symbol of power, used in phrases with its inflected forms)
    a markában tart ― to have someone under one's thumb
  3. (folksy) bundle (a fistful of wheat when harvesting with sickles or scythes; the bundles are tied into sheaves using straw)

mar +‎ -ok (personal suffix)

marok

  1. first-person singular indicative present indefinite of mar

  2. ^ Entry #1812 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

  3. ^ marok in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

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