Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

el- +‎ hagy

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛlɦɒɟ]
  • Hyphenation: el‧hagy
  • Rhymes: -ɒɟ

Verb edit

elhagy

  1. (transitive) to leave someone or something, to abandon, to desert
  2. (transitive) to lose something, to mislay, to misplace (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • elhagy 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
  • elhagy in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)