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Hungarian
Etymology
pór (“peasant”) + -ul (“as”) + jár (“to end up”)
Pronunciation
Verb
pórul jár
- (idiomatic) to come to grief (to have a disastrous or unpleasant outcome of a voluntary action)
- Synonyms: felsül, kudarcot vall, rajtaveszt, rosszul jár, ráfizet
Conjugation
- For the verb, see jár.
- The inflected noun pórul remains unchanged.
Further reading
- pórul jár 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