Definify.com

Definition 2024


Pech

Pech

See also: pech

English

Proper noun

Pech

  1. A language spoken in Honduras.

Synonyms

  • Paya

See also

  • Wiktionary's coverage of Pech terms

German

Etymology

From Old High German peh, from Latin pix. Cognate with Dutch pek, English pitch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛç/
  • Rhymes: -ɛç

Noun

Pech n (genitive Pechs or Peches, plural Peche)

  1. (usually uncountable) pitch (sticky substance)
  2. (uncountable) bad luck, misfortune

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

pech

pech

See also: Pech

English

Alternative forms

Verb

pech (third-person singular simple present pechs, present participle peching, simple past and past participle peched)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.
    • 1913, John Buchan, Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall, page 136:
      An' as they breisted the lang lang hill / The puir horse graned and peched.
    • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 321:
      Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.
    • 1954, Robin Jenkins, The Thistle and the Grail, 1994, page 225:
      She peched and had to rest often.
    • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 207:
      When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.
    • 1994, James Kelman, How Late it Was, How Late:
      If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.

Czech

Etymology

From German Pech

Noun

pech m

  1. (colloquial) bad luck

Synonyms


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛx/
  • Rhymes: -ɛx

Etymology

From German Pech (pitch, tar), from Old High German peh, from Latin pīx. Cognate with Dutch pek, English pitch.

Noun

pech m (uncountable)

  1. bad luck, bad karma

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Pech. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛxː]
  • Hyphenation: pech

Noun

pech (plural pechek)

  1. bad luck, misfortune

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative pech pechek
accusative pechet pecheket
dative pechnek pecheknek
instrumental pechhel pechekkel
causal-final pechért pechekért
translative pechhé pechekké
terminative pechig pechekig
essive-formal pechként pechekként
essive-modal
inessive pechben pechekben
superessive pechen pecheken
adessive pechnél pecheknél
illative pechbe pechekbe
sublative pechre pechekre
allative pechhez pechekhez
elative pechből pechekből
delative pechről pechekről
ablative pechtől pechektől
Possessive forms of pech
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pechem pecheim
2nd person sing. peched pecheid
3rd person sing. peche pechei
1st person plural pechünk pecheink
2nd person plural pechetek pecheitek
3rd person plural pechük pecheik

Derived terms

References

  1. Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Polish

Etymology

From German Pech.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pɛx]

Noun

pech m inan

  1. bad luck, misfortune

Declension

Derived terms

  • pechowy

Scots

Etymology

Imitative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛç/

Verb

pech (third-person singular present pechs, present participle pechin, past pecht, past participle pecht)

  1. to pant, gasp for breath