kicsiny

== Hungarian == === Etymology === Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kičin. Borrowed from a Chuvash-like Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Chuvash кӗҫӗн (kĕś̬ĕn). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈkit͡ʃiɲ] Hyphenation: ki‧csiny Rhymes: -iɲ === Adjective === kicsiny (comparative kicsinyebb, superlative legkicsinyebb) (literary) small, minuscule Synonym: kicsi ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === kicsiny (plural kicsinyek) (formal, literary) synonym of kicsi (young one, especially a child) (often with a possessive suffix) young (immature offspring of an animal) Synonyms: kölyök, fióka, utód (“an offspring of any age”) (literary) insignificant person, someone in a subordinate position (literary) construed with -ben: synonym of kicsiben (“in small size or scale”) (literary) construed with -be: synonym of kicsibe (“by a small margin”) ==== Declension ==== === References === === Further reading === kicsiny 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.