Hungarianize

English

Etymology

From Hungarian +‎ -ize.

Verb

Hungarianize (third-person singular simple present Hungarianizes, present participle Hungarianizing, simple past and past participle Hungarianized)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become Hungarian.

   Synonyms: Hungarize, Magyarize

   • 1904, Messenger, volume 42, page 665:

     strive to imitate and introduce Hungarian ways and the Hungarian language among them, and who, "with all their might, endeavor to Hungarianize the whole Greek Catholic Russian people,"

   • 1992, Sándor Bíró, The Nationalities Problem in Transylvania, 1867-1940: A Social History of the Romanian Minority Under Hungarian Rule, 1867-1918 and of the Hungarian Minority Under Romanian Rule, 1918-1940, East European Monographs, →ISBN, page 43:

     But in their all-pervasive rage to Hungarianize, they have now gone so far as to Hungarianize even by means of medical science.

   • 2016, Robert Landori, Four Equations, FriesenPress, →ISBN:

     They went to live in Budapest but did not Hungarianize their family name prior to leaving Stomfa shortly before the First World War.” “Hungarianize? Why?” “To blend in more easily after Austria and Hungary separated.”

Translations

to make Hungarian

• Esperanto: hungarigi