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Hungarianize
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English
Etymology
From en Hungarian ize.
Verb
en ambitransitive To make or become Hungarian.
en Hungarize Magyarize
en 1904 Messenger 42 665 strive to imitate and introduce Hungarian ways and the Hungarian language among them, and who, "with all their might, endeavor to Hungarianize the whole Greek Catholic Russian people,"
en 1992 Sándor Bíró The Nationalities Problem in Transylvania, 1867-1940: A Social History of the Romanian Minority Under Hungarian Rule, 1867-1918 and of the Hungarian Minority Under Romanian Rule, 1918-1940 East European Monographs 9780880332286 43 But in their all-pervasive rage to Hungarianize, they have now gone so far as to Hungarianize even by means of medical science.
en 2016 Robert Landori Four Equations FriesenPress 9781460266267 They went to live in Budapest but did not Hungarianize their family name prior to leaving Stomfa shortly before the First World War.” “Hungarianize? Why?” “To blend in more easily after Austria and Hungary separated.”
Translations
to make Hungarian
Esperanto: eo hungarigi
Polish: pl hungaryzować impf, pl zhungaryzować pf