rafinál

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Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German raffinieren, from French raffiner, from Late Latin reaffinare.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

Noun

rafinál

  1. (transitive, technology) to refine (to clean a material from contaminating, foreign substances during production)
    Synonym: finomít

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • rafinál 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