Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From a South Slavic language or from Slovak. Compare Serbo-Croatian vražiti(sh) and Slovak vražiť (to practice sorcery/magic/black art), presumably from Proto-Slavic *vorgъ.[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒraːʒol]
  • Hyphenation: va‧rá‧zsol
  • Rhymes: -ol

Verb edit

varázsol

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to practice magic, do things by magic
  2. (transitive) to change something into another thing or create something new as if by magic

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

(With verbal prefixes):

References edit

  1. ^ varázsol in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ varázsol in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading edit