Hungarian

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Etymology

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From szegély (fringe, hem; border) +‎ -ez (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛɡeːjɛz]
  • Hyphenation: sze‧gé‧lyez
  • Rhymes: -ɛz

Verb

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szegélyez

  1. (transitive) to fringe, hem (clothing etc.)
  2. (transitive) to edge, border (to furnish with a border)
  3. (transitive) to edge, border, bound (to form a border to)
    Synonym: határol
    • 1967, E. M. Forster, chapter I, in Árpád Göncz, transl., Út Indiába, Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, part I (A mecset), page 9; translation of A Passage to India, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1942 [1924]:
      A Gangesz inkább szegélyezi, mintsem mossa, a város ott húzódik mérföldhosszan a partján, s alig különbözik a szeméttől, amit a folyó oly bőven sodor a partra.
      [original: Edged rather than washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so freely.]

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