Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

hízik (to become fatter) +‎ -lal (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈhizlɒl]
  • Hyphenation: hiz‧lal
  • Rhymes: -ɒl

Verb edit

hizlal

  1. (transitive, of animals) to make fatter, fatten up (to feed animals to cause to gain weight)
  2. (transitive, of food) to make one fat
    A kenyér hizlal.Bread makes you fat.
  3. (transitive, dialectal, of ice) to thicken
    A hideg hizlalja a tó jegét.The cold weather thickens the ice on the lake.

Conjugation edit

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Further reading edit

  • hizlal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN