árul

Hungarian

Etymology

From áru (goods, merchandise, product) + -l (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈaːrul]
  • Hyphenation: árul
  • Rhymes: -ul

Verb

árul

  1. (transitive, imperfective) to sell, deal in, keep for sale (spend time trying to sell)
    Synonyms: árusít, (formal) forgalmaz, (formal) értékesít
    Perfective: elad

Usage notes

  • To express a successful sale, a completed transaction, the verb elad is used. In the middle-voice sense “to be sold”, the verb elkel is employed.
  • Its verbal noun árulás and present participle áruló are mostly reserved in the sense related to elárul (to betray) (unless the context makes it clear otherwise), so the corresponding forms of árusít (or other synonyms) are preferred in the original sense “to sell, to keep for sale”, namely árusítás (selling) and árus (vendor).

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • árulás

(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions

Further reading

  • árul 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
  • árul in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.