piros

• pirosu

From per +‎ -os or from Latin pilōsus. Compare Romanian păros.

piros

1. hairy

• per

There are two interpretations by two different sources:

1. From the same bound root (fiktív tő) as pirít (“to burn; toast; fry”), pirong (“to blush with shame”), pirkad (“to dawn”) +‎ -os (adjective-forming suffix). First attested in 1237.^[1][2]
2. From pír (“blush”).^[3]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiroʃ]

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• Rhymes: -oʃ
• Hyphenation: pi‧ros

piros (comparative pirosabb, superlative legpirosabb)

1. red (often specifically a lighter red than vörös)

   Coordinate term: (darker red) vörös

"In Hungarian, piros […is] associated with blood inside the body, […] whereas vörös is associated with blood spilled […and] the fact that after a while, blood spilled tends to get darker could explain the inclusion of darker shades in vörös."^[3] Common collocations include piros lap (red card in football), piros rózsa (red rose) and piros tojás (red egg, given by a girl to a boy during Easter).^[3]

piros (plural pirosok)

1. red (often specifically a lighter red than vörös)
2. (card games) hearts (a suit in German or Hungarian cards)

   

   Coordinate terms: zöld, makk, tök

Colors in Hungarian · színek (terms that are not originally color names are usually supplemented with színű (“-colored”) or the nearest color name; less common names are marked in small) (layout · text)

fehér	szürke	fekete
piros​/​vörös; karmazsin​/​bíborvörös	narancssárga; barna	(citrom)sárga; krém-/vajszínű
citromzöld	zöld	mentazöld
cián​/​kékeszöld; zöldeskék	azúr(kék)​/​égszínkék	kék
ibolya(sz.); indigó(sz.)​/​kékeslila	bíbor(sz.)​/​bordó; lila	rózsaszín

• piros in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

pirōs

1. accusative plural of pirus

piros m pl

1. plural of piro