tarkállik

Hungarian

Etymology

tarka (variegated, colorful) + -llik (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒrkaːlːik]
  • Hyphenation: tar‧kál‧lik

Verb

tarkállik

  1. (intransitive) to appear in many different colors, to be colorful, to be dotted with (-tól/-től)
    A fű tarkállik a sárga gyermekláncfűtől.The grass is dotted with yellow dandelions.
    A karján kék foltok tarkállottak.His arm was covered with black and blue bruises.

Conjugation

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Further reading

  • tarkállik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
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