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Hungarian
Etymology
From jár (“to walk, go”) + -ás (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
járás on Hungarian Wikipedia
járás (plural járások)
- verbal noun of jár: (the act of) walking or going
- Synonyms: séta, haladás, menés
- Járás közben jól tudok gondolkodni. ― I can think very well while walking.
- iskolába járás ― going to school, school attendance
- alvajárás ― somnambulism, sleepwalking (literally, “walking while sleeping”)
- gait, (some kind of) walking (the way a person or an animal walks)
- Megismertem a járásáról. ― I recognized him by his gait.
- kézenjárás ― hand walking
- walk (distance measured by the time required by walking)
- Synonyms: táv, távolság
- A legközelebbi város kétnapi járásra van. ― The nearest town is two day's journey by walk.
- working, operation (of a machine, especially of a clock)
- Synonyms: működés, üzemelés
- movement, -wise (referring to the hour hand, i.e. clockwise or counter-clockwise)
- az óramutató járása szerint ― clockwise (literally, “according to the movement of the hour hand”)
- az óramutató járásával ellenkező irányban ― counter-clockwise (literally, “in a direction reverse to the movement of the hour hand”)
- course (of stars, i.e. their trajectory)
- Synonyms: pálya, útvonal
- (administrative divisions) district (a low-level administrative division especially outside the capital city, a local administrative unit, comparable to a subregion, a municipality, or a community)
- Synonyms: körzet, kerület, kistérség, község (quasi-synonyms, usually referring to different entities)
- (in compounds) the way something moves, proceeds, progresses, varies, or changes
- időjárás ― weather (literally, “the change or variation of weather”)
- nyelvjárás ― dialect (literally, “the change or variation of language ”)
- észjárás ― way of thinking, turn of mind
- (in compounds) going to a place for some purpose
- kísértetjárás ― haunting (literally, “ghost-walking”)
- tatárjárás ― Mongol invasion (literally, “Tatar-walking”)
- természetjárás ― hiking (literally, “nature-walking”)
- (in compounds) a festivity involving procession
- betlehemjárás ― nativity play
- busójárás ― masked festival
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Further reading
- (walking etc.): járás 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
- (district): járás 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