város

See also: varos, varoş, and varoš

Hungarian

Etymology

vár (“castle”) +‎ -os (derivative noun-forming suffix)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈvaːroʃ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: vá‧ros
  • Rhymes: -oʃ

Noun

város (plural városok)

  1. city, town
    Hypernyms: település, helység
    Coordinate terms: falu, község, tanya
    Mindennap bemegy a városba. ― He goes to the city every day.
  2. downtown, city centre
    Synonyms: belváros, városközpont
    Antonym: kertváros

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Possessive forms of város
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. városom városaim
2nd person sing. városod városaid
3rd person sing. városa városai
1st person plural városunk városaink
2nd person plural városotok városaitok
3rd person plural városuk városaik

Derived terms
Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Compound proper nouns
Expressions

Descendants
  • Serbo-Croatian: varoš
  • Turkish: varoş
  • Romanian: oraș
  • Ukrainian: (dialectal) варош (varoš)

Further reading
  • város 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
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