Dictionaries › Hungarian

ég

Pronunciation: [ˈeːɡ]

“ég” is a Hungarian word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. sky (the part of the atmosphere which can be seen above a specific place)
  2. heaven (the abode of God and of the blessed dead)
  3. heaven as a replacement for God (the supreme being and principal object of faith in Christianity)

verb

  1. to burn, to be on fire (to be consumed by fire, or in flames)
  2. to be switched on, to be lit (of a source of illumination, to produce light)
  3. to be hot, to burn (of skin, to become hot due to fever or an emotional state)
  4. to be embarrassed, to feel ashamed (to have a feeling of shameful discomfort)
  5. to sting, to burn (to produce a burning sensation)
  6. to be burning with (to feel an ardent emotion or desire)

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *säŋe. Cognates are limited to Baltic-Finnic (e.g. Finnish sää (“weather”)) and Komi-Permyak сынӧд (synöd, “warm air”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “ég” there

More Hungarian words

About this dictionary

The Hungarian dictionary on Glottosphere has 34,421 entries with a page. Browse the Hungarian dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.