Piroska is a
Hungarian feminine given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
. Derived from the Latin name ''Prisca'' ("ancient"), the Hungarian form of the name originally appeared as Piriska, later developing into Piroska. This change was likely due to Piriska's similarity to the Hungarian name — and color — ''Piros'' ('red').
The name is on the official list of Hungarian names managed by the
.
Its diminutive form, or nickname, ''Piri'',
has developed into a standalone name.
The name day for Piroska and Piri is January 18.
Notable Piroskas and Piris
Given name
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Piroska Abos, Spanish
cross-country skier
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Piroska Budai, Hungarian
handball
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player
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Piroska Csontos, Hungarian
Paralympic
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athlete
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Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi, Hungarian serial killer
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Gabriella Piroska Mészáros, Hungarian pornographic actress
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Piroska Molnár
Piroska Molnár (born 1 October 1945) is a Hungarian actress. She has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1967.
Selected filmography
Theatre
References
External links
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1945 births
Living people
Hungarian film actress ...
, Hungarian actress
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Piroska Oszoli
Piroska Oszoli (21 January 1919 – 22 March 2017) was a Hungarian painter, is known as "The lover of the Danube and the beautiness". She worked especially as applied to En plein air, plein air Landscape art, landscape painting.
Life
Piroska O ...
, Hungarian painter
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Piroska Reichard, Hungarian-Jewish poet, critic, and translator
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Piroska Szamoránsky
Piroska Szamoránsky (born 9 July 1986) is a former Hungarian handball player.
Career
Club
As a child she practiced aerobic, jazz ballet and rope skipping. She caught the fancy of handball around 1995, by watching matches in TV, and that time ...
, Hungarian handball player
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Piroska Szekrényessy
Piroska Szekrényessy (born 1 May 1916 in Budapest, Hungary; died 30 October 1990 in Budapest) was a Hungarian pair skater who competed with her brother Attila Szekrényessy. They were six-time gold medalists at the Hungarian Figure Skating Cha ...
, Hungarian
pair skater
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Saint Piroska, renamed Irene, daughter of
King László I, wife of
John II Komnenos
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Piri Vaszary, Hungarian actress
Surname
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Attila Piroska, Romanian
football midfielder
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József Piroska, Hungarian
alpine skier
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Juraj Piroska
Juraj Piroska (born 27 February 1987) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Petržalka.
Club career
Piroska began playing football in Slovan Bratislava at the age of 6. He joined German side SC Freiburg youth squ ...
, Slovak football midfielder
The name ''Piroska'' in popular culture
* Piroska Rozgonyi in
János Arany
János Arany (; archaic English: John Arany; 2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been transl ...
's
narrative poem
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''Toldi szerelme''
* Hungarian name for
Little Red Riding Hood
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See also
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Priscilla
Priscilla is an English female given name adopted from Latin '' Prisca'', derived from ''priscus''. There is a theory that this biblical character was the author of the Letter to the Hebrews.
The name first appears in the New Testament either ...
, whose Hungarian form is ''Priszcilla''
References
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Hungarian feminine given names
Feminine given names
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