Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finno-Ugric *śorɜ (narrow) + -ít.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsoriːt]
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  • Hyphenation: szo‧rít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

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szorít

  1. (transitive) to press, grip, clutch
    Middle-voice counterpart: szorul
  2. (transitive) to urge, force, compel (to act)
  3. (intransitive) to pinch (shoe), strangle (tight collar)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions
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References

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  1. ^ Entry #979 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ szorít in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • szorít 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
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