grúz

Back-formation from Grúzia (“Georgia”), itself from German Grusiner (via earlier gruzin) and probably from Russian Грузия (Gruzija, “Georgia”).^[1][2]

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• Hyphenation: grúz
• Rhymes: -uːz

grúz (not comparable)

1. Georgian (of or relating to the country of Georgia, its people or language)

The forms Georgia (for the country) and georgiai (for the people and the language) were requested by the government of the country in the 2000s but their use haven’t taken root, probably because of their sound being unfamiliar and possibly difficult to pronounce, and/or because of the homography with the U.S. state of Georgia (which has a different pronunciation in Hungarian). Also, it was shown that this Hungarian term is not (primarily) of Russian origin but of German and ultimately of Persian and Syriac descent. Sources and more information are available in the Hungarian Wikipedia article Grúzia and in the New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.^[1]

grúz (countable and uncountable, plural grúzok)

1. Georgian (person from the country of Georgia or of Georgian descent)
2. Georgian (language)

• grúz 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
• grúz in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).