Hungarian

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Etymology

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el- +‎ alszik

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɛlɒlsik]
  • Hyphenation: el‧al‧szik
  • Rhymes: -ɒlsik

Verb

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elalszik

  1. (intransitive) to fall asleep, drift off, go to sleep
    Synonyms: álomba merül, (literary) elszenderül, (literary) álomba szenderül, elszundít, elbóbiskol
  2. (intransitive) to oversleep (miss something by sleeping)
    Synonyms: túl sokáig alszik, túl későn ébred
  3. (intransitive, of fire or a candle) to burn out, to be extinguished
    Synonyms: kialszik, (literary) kihuny
  4. (intransitive) to die away, die down (of a matter or case: get out of people's focus)
  5. (transitive) to have some body part gone to sleep (go stiff due to the wrong lying position)

Conjugation

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In all the intransitive senses:

In the transitive sense (when referring to a body part going stiff while asleep):

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • elalszik 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
  • elalszik in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
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