cáfol

Hungarian

Etymology

From an unattested stem of uncertain origin, perhaps an onomatopoeia + -ol (verb-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡saːfol]
  • Hyphenation: cá‧fol

Verb

cáfol

  1. (transitive) to refute, disprove, confute, disconfirm, falsify (to prove or demonstrate that something is false)
  2. (transitive, informal) to deny, contradict, disaffirm (to claim that something is false)
    Synonym: tagad

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • cáfolás
  • cáfolat
  • cáfolhatatlan
  • cáfolható

(With verbal prefixes):

  • megcáfol
  • rácáfol

References

  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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