zár

From a South Slavic or West Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian zuvor, Slovene zavor, Czech závora, Slovak závor, Polish zawór, Old Church Slavonic zavorъ (zavorŭ), zavora, from Proto-Slavic *za- + *vorъ (compare *zaverti), with equivalents in East Slavic languages (such as Russian затво́р (zatvór)). In Hungarian, it developed via haplology from závor → závár → zár. The verb zárol was formed from the noun zár +‎ -ol, and its stem variant zárl- served as the basis of the present-day verb zár with the elision (or syncope) of a consonant via conjugated forms like zár(o)lnak (today zárnak).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈzaːr]
• Rhymes: -aːr

zár (plural zárak)

1. lock, latch, fastener

   Coordinate term: kulcs

2. (photography) shutter (part of a camera that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in)

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

zár

1. (transitive) to close, shut, lock (often but not necessarily with a key)

   Synonym: (without using a key and a lock, only with a handle) csuk

   Antonym: nyit

   Middle-voice counterparts: záródik, zárul

2. (transitive, typography) to align text (in a direction -ra/-re)

   Synonyms: rendez, igazít

3. (intransitive, ergative) to close

   Antonym: nyit

   Szombaton korán zárnak a boltok. ― Shops close early on Saturdays.

(With verbal prefixes):

• (lock, latch): zár 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
• (to close, shut, lock): zár 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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