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amother
Scarlet


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 1:37 am
I remember my great grandmother crooning this little ditty:

Uzu sayp, uzu sayp
Uki neki semecake

Yeah, I'm murdering the words here- I cant speak Hungarian.

But I know it translates to something like:

This is nice, this is nice
Blonde and blue is very nice
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sequoia




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 5:07 am
Kapusta is Russian for cabbage.

Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language unconnected to any other except Estonian and Finnish. But I suppose Russian (and English) words have crept in.
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amother
Violet


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 6:05 am
amother [ Mint ] wrote:
Kutcha faya neki
Faya laba
Beestosh
Nemtudum
Rukadkrumpli
Rantetoosh
Nemyu
Eezay

It’s rantott hus and you’re the first person I met that uses this word other than my family!
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amother
Apricot


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 6:18 am
amother [ Mint ] wrote:
What does this word mean?

Spatula
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amother
Babypink


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 6:23 am
amother [ OP ] wrote:
Tzumi is 100% Hungarian I hear non Jewish women use it all the time.


tzutzli is hungarian, not tzumi.
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amother
Oak


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 6:47 am
amother [ Scarlet ] wrote:
I remember my great grandmother crooning this little ditty:

Uzu sayp, uzu sayp
Uki neki semecake

Yeah, I'm murdering the words here- I cant speak Hungarian.

But I know it translates to something like:

This is nice, this is nice
Blonde and blue is very nice

My grandmother sings this!!!!
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freilich




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 7:29 am
amother [ Violet ] wrote:
It’s rantott hus and you’re the first person I met that uses this word other than my family!

Does it mean round?

Rupagush- I think it means crispy.
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amother
Violet


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 8:25 am
freilich wrote:
Does it mean round?

Rupagush- I think it means crispy.

It’s what we called schnitzel.
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amother
Floralwhite


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 10:11 am
Csinos means chic/pretty, not skinny. Which goes to tell you something...

Az a szep is a song about a girl who feels that her blue eyes are pretty but unfortunately not pretty enough for the guy she would like to have love her. It's a csardas tune.
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yksraya




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 10:22 am
sequoia wrote:
Kapusta is Russian for cabbage.

Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language unconnected to any other except Estonian and Finnish. But I suppose Russian (and English) words have crept in.

A while back, when discussing stuffed cabbage, I was also surprised they call it kapusta, I actually checked it up and posted a link there that it is indeed called similarly in hungarian. Maybe it's a russianized hungarian etc.

I also see in one post here that a wig is paroka, in russian it's pareek. I guess some word are same/similar, although most words are way different.

When I checked about kapusta, it wasn't just russian or hungarian, some other languages too, I guess it may be one of the international words. Like banana is similar in many languages.
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amother
Cobalt


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 10:42 am
You just want a list of the words that we use daily or any Hungarian word?

Unyoo- mom
Upoo- dad
Cusenem- thank you
Seyp- nice
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cnc




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 11:19 am
Half of these words I had always assumed were Yiddish
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amother
Mint


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 11:22 am
cnc wrote:
Half of these words I had always assumed were Yiddish


Some of them are. Not all words posted here are Hungarian.
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blueberry6




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 11:49 am
Well I for one am finding this thread so interesting. My grandmother always used to say tzumi and I never knew what language it was (not that I ever thought about it lol) and she didn't speak yiddish at all, so I guess it makes sense that it's Hungarian.
And I've heard my father refer to the fish sauce as kotchinyu (sorry for my atrocious spelling!), and my grandmother used to make this cold potato, sour cream, and vinegar soup she called as ?krumplibob... and a neighbor/family friend once called me chinosh, which prompted my father to have a whole argument with her as to what it really means because I am many things but thin is not one of them lol.
And my mother says boodi for bath and I never knew where that came from either - I mean she's not that Hungarian but whatever
I'm just finding this whole discussion so fun. Also because I always thought Hungarian words were hysterical, no offense to anyone LOL
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cbsp




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 12:34 pm
I can count up to 19 in Hungarian... Does that count?

Maybe someone here knows the words to a Hungarian (folk?) song about a cockroach (Waterbug)? that drowned in an ocean. I used to know it phonetically without quote knowing what I was saying but now when I google it the words for cockroach (or Waterbug) don't match the word I remember in the song...
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mizle10




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 12:41 pm
I believe chinush is attractive, not skinny. At least that’s how my grandmother uses it.
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amother
Pink


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 12:54 pm
Forgive the spelling...

Chulamadee - vegetable salad
rukatkrumplee - potato/sour cream/egg dish
chinush - pretty/skinny
hubbush - chubby/robust
poletchintas - blintzes
kutchefayaneki - curse (muttered when upset)
mokush - squirrel
hunjie - ant (or boogers, in our family)
boodgie - underpants
tchilar - chandelier (this might be yiddish though)
poprikash - chicken with paprika (probably means paprika, but that's what the dish is called)
goulash - beef and potato stew
eezay - thing (when the word skips your mind)

There are more... I'll update when I think of them.
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amother
OP


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 12:57 pm
amother [ Babypink ] wrote:
tzutzli is hungarian, not tzumi.


That's the proper word but tzumi is like the word "binky" in english.
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amother
Mint


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 1:03 pm
Meghalt - died
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Proudly Right




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 1:34 pm
senyesh

lopahd

foshid

tziganer

rantohdtoosh

bundash kenyeh

rokedkrompli

popush

mokohsh

ehree ember
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