görbe

From a Slavic language. Its original form was gurba, still present in girbegurba (“crooked, winding, twisted”). Compare Proto-Slavic *gъrbъ.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡørbɛ]

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• Hyphenation: gör‧be
• Rhymes: -bɛ

görbe (comparative görbébb, superlative leggörbébb)

1. bent, curved (not straight, having one or more bends or angles)

   Antonym: egyenes

2. (figuratively) dishonest, crooked

   görbe úton jár ― to be a crook, to have shady dealings (literally, “to walk on a crooked road”)

3. (figuratively, humorous, slightly derogatory) of a day, evening or night spent with excessive drinking or revelry

   Tegnap csaptunk egy görbe estét. ― We went on the razzle last evening.

4. (figuratively, of a look or glance) askance (with disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion; with animosity)

   görbe szemmel néz rá ― to look at him/her askance

görbe (plural görbék)

1. (geometry) curve (a curved line)
2. curve, graph, chart, diagram

   Synonym: grafikon

• görbe 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