Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Serbo-Croatian verbovati, from German werben (to recruit).[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛrbuvaːl]
  • Hyphenation: ver‧bu‧vál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

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verbuvál

  1. (transitive, dated) to recruit (to supply with new men, as an army)
    Synonym: toboroz
  2. (transitive, figuratively, colloquial) to recruit (to enroll or enlist new members towards a goal)
    Synonyms: szervez, beszervez, megnyer, gyűjt, toboroz

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

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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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