borostyán

• IPA^(key): [ˈboroʃcaːn]
• Hyphenation: bo‧ros‧tyán
• Rhymes: -aːn

Borrowed from German Bernstein.

borostyán (countable and uncountable, plural borostyánok)

1. amber

   Synonym: borostyánkő

Borrowed from a Slavic language; see Russian берескле́т (beresklét) for more on the form and etymology. Opposed to native repkény for the ground ivy, as the ivy is not capable of bearing much cold so that it does not occur beyond the lower Volga, therefore the borrowing.

borostyán (countable and uncountable, plural borostyánok)

1. ivy

• Sullivan, William Kirby (1859) “On the influence which the Physical Geography, the Animal and Vegetable Productions, etc. of different regions exert upon the Languages, Mythology, and early Literature of Mankind, with reference to its employment as a test of Ethnological Hypotheses”, in The Atlantis. A Register of Literature and Science, volume II, page 168
• borostyán in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

• (amber): borostyán 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
• (ivy): borostyán 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
• borostyán in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)