patak

See also: paták and páťák

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

paták

1. arrow with a long, narrow arrowhead

Hungarian

patak

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *potokъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒtɒk]

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• Hyphenation: pa‧tak
• Rhymes: -ɒk

Noun

patak (plural patakok)

1. stream, brook, runnel, rivulet (a body of running water smaller than a river)

   Hypernym: folyóvíz

   Coordinate terms: ér, csermely, folyó, folyam

   • 1809, Ferenc Kölcsey, A nyúgalomhoz‎^[1], lines 9–12:

     Csak a patak csörög körülted, / Csak a zefír susog, / S a fülmilécske zeng szavával, / S csattog, süvőlt, kereng.

2. (figuratively, exaggerated, of liquid) stream

   A vér patakban folyt az orrából. ― There was blood streaming from his nose.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	patak	patakok
accusative	patakot	patakokat
dative	pataknak	patakoknak
instrumental	patakkal	patakokkal
causal-final	patakért	patakokért
translative	patakká	patakokká
terminative	patakig	patakokig
essive-formal	patakként	patakokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	patakban	patakokban
superessive	patakon	patakokon
adessive	pataknál	patakoknál
illative	patakba	patakokba
sublative	patakra	patakokra
allative	patakhoz	patakokhoz
elative	patakból	patakokból
delative	patakról	patakokról
ablative	pataktól	patakoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	pataké	patakoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	patakéi	patakokéi

Possessive forms of patak
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	patakom	patakjaim
2nd person sing.	patakod	patakjaid
3rd person sing.	patakja	patakjai
1st person plural	patakunk	patakjaink
2nd person plural	patakotok	patakjaitok
3rd person plural	patakjuk	patakjaik

Derived terms

• patakocska
• patakzik

 

Compound words

• búvópatak
• patakcsobogás
• patakmeder
• patakpart
• patakvíz
• patakvölgy
• patakzaj
• vérpatak

 

Further reading

• patak 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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pȁtka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎːtak/
• Hyphenation: pa‧tak

Noun

pátak m (Cyrillic spelling па́так)

1. drake (male duck)

Declension

Declension of patak

	singular	plural
nominative	pátak	páci
genitive	pátka	pȃtākā
dative	patku	pacima
accusative	patka	patke
vocative	patku	paci
locative	patku	pacima
instrumental	patkom	pacima

Related terms

• pȁtka

References

• “patak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈtak/ [pɐˈt̪ak̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: pa‧tak

Noun

paták (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜆᜃ᜔)

1. drop (of liquid); droplet

Derived terms

• ipampatak
• ipatak
• magpatak
• mapatakan
• pampatak
• patak-patak
• patakan
• pumatak

 

See also

• tagaktak
• tulo

 

Further reading

• “patak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• kapat, takap, tapak