Magyarize
English
Alternative forms
- Magyarise
Etymology
From Magyar + -ize.
Verb
Magyarize (third-person singular simple present Magyarizes, present participle Magyarizing, simple past and past participle Magyarized)
- (transitive) To make or render Hungarian.
- 1851 January, Francis Bowen, “The Rebellion of the Slavonic, Wallachian, and German Hungarians Against the Magyars”, in The North American Review, volume 72, number 151, Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, page 233:
- The Hungarians wished to Magyarize the Slavonians; but these were not inclined to submit to such a demand. The Magyars had dreamed of political unity for their own advantage; and they saw federalism appear, which they had themselves called into being.
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- (intransitive) To become Hungarian.
Synonyms
- (to make or render Hungarian): Hungarianize
- (to become Hungarian): Hungarianize
Derived terms
- Magyarization
Translations
to make or render Hungarian
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to become Hungarian
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