megrohan

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From meg- +‎ rohan (to rush, run).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛɡroɦɒn]
  • Hyphenation: meg‧ro‧han
  • Rhymes: -ɒn

Verb[edit]

megrohan

  1. (transitive, chiefly military) to storm, rush, assail (someone or something) (to assault suddenly and violently)
    Synonym: megrohamoz
  2. (transitive, of people) to flock to, swarm, descend upon (a place etc.) (to arrive to hastily and in large numbers)
    Synonyms: eláraszt, megrohamoz
  3. (transitive, of a disease, pain etc.) to afflict (someone) suddenly, to come over
    Synonym: ledönt a lábáról
  4. (transitive, of an emotion, memory etc.) to overwhelm, seize, engulf (someone)
    Synonyms: eláraszt, elfog, elönt
    • 1967, E. M. Forster, chapter VII, in Árpád Göncz, transl., Út Indiába, Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, part I (A mecset), page 61; translation of A Passage to India, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1942 [1924]:
      Megrohanták az új benyomások, de ezek nem az ortodox új benyomások voltak: átszínezte őket a múlt, s így volt ez a hibáival is.
      [original: New impressions crowded on him, but they were not the orthodox new impressions; the past conditioned them, and so it was with his mistakes.]

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Further reading[edit]

  • megrohan 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