hizlal

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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hízik (to become fatter) +‎ -lal (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhizlɒl]
  • Hyphenation: hiz‧lal
  • Rhymes: -ɒl

Verb

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hizlal

  1. (transitive, of animals) to make fatter, fatten up (to feed animals to cause to gain weight)
  2. (transitive, of food) to make one fat
    A kenyér hizlal.Bread makes you fat.
  3. (transitive, dialectal, of ice) to thicken
    A hideg hizlalja a tó jegét.The cold weather thickens the ice on the lake.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading

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  • hizlal 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