Hungarian

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Etymology

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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

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

Verb

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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

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

References

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  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

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