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Hungarian

  1. of, about, or relating to Hungary or its inhabitants
L1400872 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

  1. thievish, marauding, needy, beggarly
  2. (US campus) hungry
L1400880 on Wikidata ↗

noun

  1. a hungry person, a glutton
L1400883 on Wikidata ↗

proper noun

  1. Finno-Ugric language of the Hungarians
  2. person from or resident of Hungary
  3. ethnic group speaking the Hungarian language and living primarily in Hungary
L34507 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/

adj

Etymology: From Hungary + -an.

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to present-day Hungary, the ethnic Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.
  2. Of, from, or pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of ethnicity.
  3. Of or relating to Hungarian notation.

    The Hungarian prefix used in this book for a GroupBox control is “grp”.

noun

Etymology: From Hungary + -an.

  1. A person of a Uralic ethnic group native to Central Europe, comprising the ethnic majority of Hungary.
  2. A person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity.
  3. The main language of Hungary.

    I remember a conversation I had once with a friend who insisted that “nouns are declined but verbs are conjugated”; except in Hungarian you both decline and conjugate nouns, sometimes together.

  4. Hungarian notation.

    The qualifier is the descriptive part of the name that would probably make up the entire name if you weren't using Hungarian.