Hungarian

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Etymology

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el- +‎ hagy

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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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

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • 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)