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Hungarian
Etymology
First attested in 1416. From hosszú (“long”) + -a (possessive suffix) + -ban (“in”, inessive case suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: hosz‧szá‧ban
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Adverb
hosszában (not comparable)
- lengthwise, lengthways (in the long direction of an oblong object)
A zöldbabot nehéz hosszában elvágni, mert olyan keskeny.- Cutting a string bean lengthwise is hard because they are so narrow.
Derived terms
Postposition
hosszában
- along (by the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to)
- Bokrokat ültettünk a fal teljes hosszában. ― We planted bushes along the entire length of the wall.
References
Further reading
- hosszában 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