teremburáját

== Hungarian == === Etymology === Contraction; a euphemistic form (minced oath) of terem(tő) (“creating”) +‎ -b- (inorganic linking sound) +‎ urát (“…’s Lord, his/her/its Lord”). The sound -b- may have been influenced by búra (“lampshade, dome-like cover”) (compare borít (“to cover or spread over”)). For its form of coinage, compare istenfáját and kutyafáját. The ending is apparently -ja (“…’s, his/her/its”, possessive suffix) +‎ -t (accusative suffix). === Interjection === (a) teremburáját! (dated, informal, usually construed with a) zounds! (formerly a swear word; currently more like a gentle, humorous expletive, chiefly to express annoyance; occasionally with a noun specifying the source of the annoyance, expressed with -nak/-nek) ==== Declension ==== Sometimes it is used with second-person possessive suffixes: a teremburádat (singular) and a teremburátokat (plural). === References === === Further reading === teremburáját 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.