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Hungarianism
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English
Etymology
From en Hungarian ism.
Noun
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en countable rhetoric A word or idiom of the Hungarian language (that has been borrowed by another language).
en Magyarism
en 1998 Jerzy Rusek; Janusz Siatkowski; Zbigniew Rusek Streszczenia referatów i komunikatów: XII Międzynarodowy Kongres Slawistów, Kraków 27 VIII-2 IX 1998. Językoznawstwo 9788385118787 The lexical Hungarianisms of most of the Slavonic languages have been surveyed, and there is a number of articles and essays on the topic.
en 2007 Joel T. Klein Body-Soul-Spirit 9780595442300 After she had read my drafts, I received the final script with my Hungarianisms turned into clear English, my grammatical mistakes corrected and my typos eliminated.
en 2021-05-03 Adam Leith Gollner Does Your Wine Really Taste Like Rocks? w:The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/does-your-wine-really-taste-like-rocks When I learned that she’d never tried a Hungarian white this old, we decided to open one of the two bottles I’d picked up. Neither of us held out much hope. My father had warned me that the wine would probably be “broken,” a Hungarianism for wine that falls somewhere between vinegar and sherry. https://web.archive.org/web/20260724202832/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/does-your-wine-really-taste-like-rocks 24 July 2026
en countable or uncountable A custom or typical practice (e.g. in music) of the Hungarian people.
en 2005 Kenneth Hamilton The Cambridge Companion to Liszt Cambridge University Press 9781139825757 Although chiefly inspired by Brahms, Dohnányi did employ the Hungarianisms that characterised the works of Liszt, which can be seen in a work like the Second String Quartet.
en uncountable en Hungarism, a Hungarian fascist movement.
en 2010 Vít Hloušek; Lubomír Kopecek Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared 9780754678403 190 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zMsoDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 This was reflected in their ideology of Hungarianism, representing a mix of anti-Semitism, intense nationalism with an anti-capitalist, anti-Communist, and popular protest appeal, and the final goal was a racially pure Hungary.
Coordinate terms
Translations
a word or idiom of the Hungarian language
Czech: cs hungarismus
Hungarian: hu magyarizmus, hu hungarizmus
Polish: pl hungaryzm
Romanian: ro maghiarism
Ukrainian: uk мадяризм m, uk гунгаризм m, uk угризм m
Hungarian custom
Hungarian: hu hungarikum
fascist movement Hungarism
en Hungary