rác

First attested in c. 1395. From Rácország (“Serbia”). The country name was attested as Racz orszag in 1590. The first part of the compound word is derived from the name of the region's most important fort of Ras.^[1]

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• Hyphenation: rác
• Rhymes: -aːt͡s

rác (plural rácok)

1. (dated) Serb (a person of Serb descent living in Hungary)

   Synonym: szerb

   Coordinate terms: (all: historical designations of nationalities) tót, oláh, ruszin, polyák, talján, muszka

rác (not comparable)

1. (dated) Serbian (of or relating to Serbs and the Serbian language)

   Synonym: szerb

• rác in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Earlier referred to "useless straws and stalks", hence the compounds cỏ rác and rơm rác.

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rác • (落, 覺, 󱭯)

1. (obsolete) short, scattered straws and stalks
2. (by extension) trash, garbage, rubbish

   ki hốt rác ― a dustpan

   sọt rác ― a small trash bin