| Word form | huhur, huhura |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Czech translation | houba |
| Hungarian translation | gomba |
| Grammatical info | noun, feminine |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Indo-Aryan [9] (-1900–-500) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *xuxur M ‘mushroom’ |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 118: cf. Hindi kukurmuttā ‘(Gift-)Pilz = toadstool, mushroom’ |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 65: cf. Hindi dial. khakhũḍī ‘hollow spadix’ |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 76: no etymology |
| Other etymologies | Tálos (1999: 236): Ancient Romani *xuxur(mutro) M ‘poisonous mushroom, toadstool’; cf. Punjabi kukkar-muttā M, Hindi kukur-mutā M ‘mushroom, toadstool’ [dog-urine], cf. Turner 3329 kukkura-, kurkura- M and 10234 mūtra- N, *mūtraka- M/N, i.e. OIA *kurkura-mūtraka-. The semantic motivation: ‘a pnat dogs are fon of smelling before urinating’. |