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ssspectacular




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 10:39 am
Wow This thread is such a blast from the past for me.
Minden yo- everything good (a wish for someone)
chinush definitely has a 'slim' connotation
lopota- a shovel
I wash I knew the proper spellings. I'm just writing them as I heard them.
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amother
Gray


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 10:40 am
amother [ Floralwhite ] wrote:
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.


Glad you pointed that out. Csinos (cheenosh) is definitely not skinny. It means you have a nice figure and look chic. If you’re too thin you don’t qualify.

Az a szep (oz a sayp) is a song about a girl who says - Who is pretty? The one who has blue eyes. (Szeme kek / ssemmeh cake). My eyes are dark blue (sotet kek / shootayt cake) so I’m not beautiful enough for my boyfriend.

Azt a kutja (kootya) faja neki is not a curse. You say it when you stub your toe or get mad at someone but it’s not foul languages. The old time Hungarians we knew didn’t use obscenities. It means something like that dog (kootya) hurts.
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ChassidishMommy




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 12:23 pm
ssspectacular wrote:
Wow This thread is such a blast from the past for me.
Minden yo- everything good (a wish for someone)
chinush definitely has a 'slim' connotation
lopota- a shovel
I wash I knew the proper spellings. I'm just writing them as I heard them.

Lopota is Yiddish, via Russian.
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ChassidishMommy




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 12:28 pm
yksraya wrote:
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.

In Yiddish it's Faruk, from the German Perücke.
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dankbar




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 12:44 pm
Labos?
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Mollie




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 1:01 pm
4 pages and nobody mentioned kokosh cake..
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amother
Cobalt


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 1:28 pm
Or kokosh by itself which means a rooster
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GOODMOM




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 4:36 pm
Porsivoh- that's what my mom called a vacuum cleaner
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GOODMOM




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 4:37 pm
Hush leyvesh- chicken soup
Rantot hoosh- shnitzel
Reyndo sheck- police
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ssspectacular




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 4:43 pm
amother [ Cobalt ] wrote:
Or kokosh by itself which means a rooster

My dh just reminded me about the famous song, Sola kokosh mah . Does anyone know the words to it?
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amother
Apricot


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 4:50 pm
amother [ Gray ] wrote:
Glad you pointed that out. Csinos (cheenosh) is definitely not skinny. It means you have a nice figure and look chic. If you’re too thin you don’t qualify.

Az a szep (oz a sayp) is a song about a girl who says - Who is pretty? The one who has blue eyes. (Szeme kek / ssemmeh cake). My eyes are dark blue (sotet kek / shootayt cake) so I’m not beautiful enough for my boyfriend.

Azt a kutja (kootya) faja neki is not a curse. You say it when you stub your toe or get mad at someone but it’s not foul languages. The old time Hungarians we knew didn’t use obscenities. It means something like that dog (kootya) hurts.

Doesn't it mean a dog's boner?
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cbsp




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 5:10 pm
ssspectacular wrote:
My dh just reminded me about the famous song, Sola kokosh mah . Does anyone know the words to it?


from here:

https://www.shabboshouse.org/m.....ebbe/

70 years after the Holocaust began in Hungary, 1944-2014, the Kaliver Rebbe returned from Israel to Budapest for a special ceremony at the riverside. All types of people gathered there, religious, not-religious, people from Israel, locals. And the Kaliver Rebbe on the microphone sang aloud the Sola Kokosh Mar song, accompanied by a choir of Chabad children from Budapest. You can watch it on YouTube, it is very moving. Almost like a flash-mob, more people start to gather.

https://youtu.be/i03iegZ3Hwo



The lyrics are in the video description
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amother
Chartreuse


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 5:13 pm
My mother always said somthing like:
"iskolában fáj o labbe hozemeni nem faisheni" (spelling is not good)
When I faked being sick and didn't want to go to school
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amother
Olive


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 5:15 pm
amother [ Pink ] wrote:
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.


My mom used to make this, but she just called it Potatoes and Sour Cream Smile
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ssspectacular




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 5:24 pm
[quote="cbsp"]from here:

https://www.shabboshouse.org/m.....ebbe/

70 years after the Holocaust began in Hungary, 1944-2014, the Kaliver Rebbe returned from Israel to Budapest for a special ceremony at the riverside. All types of people gathered there, religious, not-religious, people from Israel, locals. And the Kaliver Rebbe on the microphone sang aloud the Sola Kokosh Mar song, accompanied by a choir of Chabad children from Budapest. You can watch it on YouTube, it is very moving. Almost like a flash-mob, more people start to gather.

https://youtu.be/i03iegZ3Hwo



The lyrics are in the video description[/quote

Thank you so much for this. It is so emotional for me since my parents were from that area and I've never seen pictures of it.
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amother
Seagreen


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 6:12 pm
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


When I was in Camp Sternberg twenty years ago we sang a cheer that I believe originated from this song 😂.
Osasse osasse oh kenekto semase....
Lemo lemo.....kokosh cake
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mommy3b2c




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 6:24 pm
cbsp wrote:
from here:

https://www.shabboshouse.org/m.....ebbe/

70 years after the Holocaust began in Hungary, 1944-2014, the Kaliver Rebbe returned from Israel to Budapest for a special ceremony at the riverside. All types of people gathered there, religious, not-religious, people from Israel, locals. And the Kaliver Rebbe on the microphone sang aloud the Sola Kokosh Mar song, accompanied by a choir of Chabad children from Budapest. You can watch it on YouTube, it is very moving. Almost like a flash-mob, more people start to gather.

https://youtu.be/i03iegZ3Hwo



The lyrics are in the video description


I am a great-great-great-great grand child of the kaliver rebbe who wrote this song.
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Tzutzie




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 6:25 pm
cbsp wrote:
So DH used to say this when he'd be upset.

Till one day our really little kid asked what it was he was saying.

He answered "butcher fireman - it's something to say when you want something to work"

And the next day we overhear the kids say "OK, we finished building it. Now we sing "1-2-3 a butcher fireman" so it's gonna work"

LOL

(now when he's upset he just says oh, butcher fireman. And then he starts laughing. See, it works!)


Ok your son is hilariously cute!!!
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cbsp




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 6:56 pm
Tzutzie wrote:
Ok your son is hilariously cute!!!


Thanks, we think so too.

But to clarify, it's DH that now says "butcher fireman" (instead of the Hungarian words) when he's upset - and then it makes him laugh, so it does really work!


(and we taught our kids that "b'shem HaShem na'aseh v'natzliach" is a better phrase to use since it's a tefillah. But alas, "1-2-3 a butcher fireman" seems to be a catchier refrain LOL)
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amother
Papaya


 

Post Tue, May 04 2021, 8:36 pm
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


Are you my cousin?? You just gave such a warm feeling thinking about that song Smile. It’s something about being pretty and black eyes and green eyes I think.
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