Hungarian

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Etymology

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ki- +‎ alszik

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkijɒlsik]
  • Hyphenation: ki‧al‧szik
  • Rhymes: -ɒlsik

Verb

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kialszik

  1. (intransitive) to go out (light), burn out, die down (to extinguish due to lack of fuel)
    Reggelre kialudt a tűz.By the morning the fire had died down.
  2. (reflexively, as kialussza magát, with definite conjugation) to have a good and satisfying sleep, to get a good night’s sleep
    Kialudta magát.He got a good night’s sleep.
  3. (transitive) to sleep off (to get rid of a pain, illness, condition by sleeping)

Conjugation

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In the intransitive sense:

In the reflexive and the transitive sense:

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • kialszik 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