száll

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

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• Hyphenation: száll
• Rhymes: -aːlː

Verb

száll

1. (intransitive) to fly, soar (optionally with locative suffixes)

   Synonyms: repül, szárnyal

   A madár magasan száll. ― The bird flies high.

   • 1863, János Arany, Buda halála‎, canto 6:

     Száll a madár, ágrul ágra, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (intransitive, of time) to fly, to pass

   Synonyms: telik, repül

   Gyorsan száll az idő. ― Time flies.

3. (intransitive) to settle on/onto/at someone or something (used with lative suffixes)

   Synonym: telepedik

   A madár egy faágra szállt. ― The bird alighted on a tree branch.

4. (intransitive, of inheritance, legacy) to come into someone’s ownership, to fall on someone, to be transferred to someone by law (used with -ra/-re)

   Synonym: jut

   Az örökség rám száll. ― The inheritance is transferred to me / I get the inheritance.

5. (intransitive) to get into, board a vehicle (usually with -ba/-be for cars and -ra/-re for all other vehicles; see Usage notes at felszáll)

   Synonyms: felszáll, beszáll

   Kocsiba szálltak. ― They got into a car.

   Hajóra szálltak. ― They boarded a ship.

6. (intransitive, archaic) Synonym of megszáll (“to stay with someone or at a place overnight”)

Usage notes

Not to be confused with the noun szál (“thread”) which is pronounced with a short l.

Conjugation

In archaic or literary style, the long forms (with a linking vowel) are (were) common in the past tense, as well as in the present-tense conditional (even if it is short otherwise):

Derived terms

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References

Further reading

• száll 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