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 unattested stem as in pirít +‎ -os (adjective-forming suffix).^[1]
2. From pír (“blush”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiroʃ]

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• Hyphenation: pi‧ros
• Rhymes: -oʃ

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."^[2] 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).^[2]

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

• piros 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

pirōs

1. accusative plural of pirus

piros m pl

1. plural of piro