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Uncertain.
- Possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śeppä (“skilled”) through Proto-Ugric *seppä. Hence also Proto-Samic *čeappē (“skillful”) and Proto-Finnic *seppä (“smith”).[1][2] This explanation faces semantic difficulties.
- Alternatively from a Turkic language, whence Chuvash шеп (šep, “beautiful”).[3]
| This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Alternatively, borrowed from an Iranian language (compare Persian زیبا (zibâ, “beautiful”))?[4] (is there any literature that discusses this similarity and the chances of them being related?)” |
szép (comparative szebb, superlative legszebb)
- beautiful
- Antonym: csúnya
- (as a prefix) great-great-great-grand- (the grandparent of one's great-grandparent or the grandchild of one's great-grandchild)
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- ^ Entry #956 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ szép in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
- ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “seppä”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[1] (in Finnish)
- ^ “Do szép from Hungarian and زیبا (zeːbɑː) from Persian have the same origin?”, in Quora[2], 2023 January 31, archived from the original on 2023-11-07
- szép in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN