Hungarian

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Etymology

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From German repatrieren, from French repatrier.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛpɒtrijaːl]
  • Hyphenation: re‧pat‧ri‧ál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

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repatriál

  1. (intransitive) to repatriate (to return to one's birth country after a long absence and to request restoring one's original citizenship)
    Synonyms: hazatelepül, visszahonosítást kér
  2. (transitive, rare) to repatriate (of government authority: to restore a person to his or her own country)
    Synonym: visszahonosít
  3. (transitive, rare) to repatriate (of body of government: to return a POW or refugee to his or her own country)
    Synonyms: hazaszállít, hazatelepít, visszahoz

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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