szélek

Szélek is a Hungarian noun that denotes winds. It is the plural form of szél (wind) and is used primarily in poetic, literary, or historical contexts to evoke multiple or forceful wind currents. In everyday modern Hungarian, the more common plural is szelek, but szélek survives in older texts and in styles that aim for elevated or archaic tone.

The word has its roots in Old Hungarian and follows a standard plural formation pattern in Hungarian, where -ek is added to a stem ending in a consonant, here the stem szél ending in l. This gives the form szélek, which is recognized in literary usage even when less common in everyday speech.

In usage, szélek may appear in weather descriptions, folklore, or poetry to emphasize wind as a moving, often personified force. For example, a line in a nineteenth-century poem might describe “a szélek zúgnak” to convey the wind’s sudden or dramatic impact on a landscape. Modern writers may avoid it in prose unless aiming for historical flavor or rhetorical effect.

See also: Szél (the general term for wind) and, more broadly, Wind.