Word origins

• VecseyA surname from Hungarian.
• KardosA surname from Hungarian.
• LentiA town in Zala County, Hungary.
• PuskasA surname from Hungarian.
• MarosThe Mureș river in Romania and Hungary.
• SzollosiA surname from Hungarian.
• PalloA surname.
• DudashA surname.
• agrarian scissorsThe disparity between the prices of agricultural and industrial products.
• ArpadianRelated to the Árpád dynasty of Hungary, c. 855–1301 CE.
• AujeszkyA Hungarian ethnic surname from Hungarian.
• Bács-KiskunAn administrative county of Hungary.
• bogracsA Hungarian cooking pot made of metal.
• Borsod-Abaúj-ZemplénAn administrative county of Hungary.
• chimney cakeA kind of long, cylindrical Hungarian pastry made from sweet yeast dough and roasted over charcoal, originating from the Székely people (kürtőskalács).
• chorbastews or rich soups found in national cuisines across the Middle East, Maghreb, Iran, Turkey, Southeast Europe, Central Asia, East Africa and South Asia
• cimbalomA type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Central and Eastern Europe.
• csardasAn intricate Hungarian folk dance characterized by variations in tempo. The two main parts are called lassú (slow) and friss (quick).
• CserbaA surname from Hungarian.
• Csongrád-CsanádAn administrative county in southern Hungary.
• debrecenerA spiced Hungarian pork sausage
• doberge cakeA dessert made of alternate layers of cake and pudding, often half chocolate and half lemon, and covered with a fondant shell or poured glaze.
• ErdősA surname.
• EstokA surname.
• fillérA subdenomination of the forint, 100 fillér = 1 forint; only used in calculations since 2000 due to inflation.
• furmintA type of grape grown in Hungary, commonly used in tokays.
• gömböcA convex shape which, if made of a uniformly dense material, has one stable equilibrium orientation and one unstable equilibrium orientation.
• gombosA surname from Hungarian.
• goulash communismThe form of communism in Hungary following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, involving economic reforms and reduced repression.
• gulyásA traditional Hungarian dish of beef, pork, or veal stew with potatoes, dumplings, or both, seasoned with paprika.
• GyőrThe capital city of Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Hungary.
• Győr-Moson-SopronAn administrative county of Hungary.
• HadnagyA surname from Hungarian.
• halaszleA hot, spicy paprika-based river-fish soup which originates from Hungary.
• hárslevelűA variety of grape grown primarily in Hungary, commonly used in tokays.
• HayduA surname from Hungarian.
• HomolyaA surname.
• HungarismThe fascist ideology of the Nazi-aligned Arrow Cross Party, which ruled Hungary from 1944 to 1945, and of its predecessors and subsequent far-right supporters.
• HungaristA supporter of Hungarism, a Hungarian fascist movement.
• ispánThe leader of a castle district or county in the Kingdom of Hungary from the early 11th century.
• kadarkaA dark-skinned variety of grape grown primarily in Hungary.
• kifliA Hungarian crescent-shaped bread roll.
• KispestThe 19th district of Budapest, Hungary.
• KőbányaThe tenth district of Budapest, Hungary.
• KohanyiA surname from Hungarian.
• kokosh cakeYeast cake of a particular kind, formed by rolling dough about a cocoa-based filling.
• KoleszarA transliteration of the Hungarian surname Koleszár
• korneliteA monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.
• KovacsicsA surname from Hungarian.
• KulcsarA surname from Hungarian.
• kurutzA surname from Hungarian.
• langosA traditional Hungarian fried dough, usually seasoned with garlic, sour cream or cheese and sold as a fast food.
• lekvarA sweet spread made from apricots or prunes.
• LukachA surname.
• magic cubeBy analogy with magic square, an n-by-n-by-n arrangement of n³ numbers such that the numbers in each row, in all columns (horizontal and vertical) and in all main diagonals (of which there are 6*n+4) each have the same sum.
• MagocsiA surname from Hungarian.
• MangalicaA domestic pig of a Hungarian breed developed in the mid-19th century, which grows a thick, curly coat of hair.
• MedvigyA surname.
• MezoA surname from Hungarian.
• MihokA surname.
• MudiA breed of herding dog originating in Hungary.
• neologPertaining to a liberal and reformist current of Hungarian Judaism.
• NyírtassA village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary.
• OcsenasA surname.
• OrbánA surname from Hungarian.
• palacsintaSynonym of palatschinke in Hungarian cuisine.
• palinkaA traditional Hungarian fruit brandy.
• pannofixA Hungarian fur made from lambskin.
• paprikashA Hungarian dish resembling goulash (a paprika-based potato stew), but without potatoes and using meat instead, often chicken and sometimes veal.
• PécsA city in Hungary.
• pengőThe monetary unit of Hungary from January, 1927 to July, 1946, divided into 100 fillér.
• pustaA temperate grassland biome of the Great Hungarian Plain; an exclave of the Pannonian Steppe.
• puttonyA wooden or wickerwork basket used, in Hungary, to carry grapes in a vineyard
• RackaA breed of sheep with unusual spiral horns, originating in Hungary.
• RaiszA surname from Hungarian.
• RakoczyA surname from Hungarian.
• Rubik's cubeA mechanical puzzle in the shape of a cube, all sides able to be rotated, each side divided into 9 squares, the moving pieces allowing the cube to be rearranged. The goal is to get the colored squares aligned so that each side of the cube is the same color.
• ruin pubA bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
• salami tacticsThe piecemeal removal or scaling back of something (especially political opposition); a gradual attack on an opposing position, group, etc.
• salayA genre of Andean popular music most closely associated with Bolivia and Peru.
• secret chancellorIn the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, originally the chief priest of the royal chapel, who bore the title of count (ispán); later the head of a separate chancellery concerned with foreign diplomacy.
• SolteszA surname from Hungarian.
• Szabolcs-Szatmár-BeregAn administrative county in northeastern Hungary.
• SzékelyA member of a subgroup of the Hungarian people living mostly in the Székely Land in present-day Romania.
• Székely LandA historic and ethnographic region in Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians.
• SzelesA surname from Hungarian.
• SzikoraA surname.
• tarhonyaA kind of egg-based pasta in the shape of small balls.
• tarogatoa reed instrument originating from Hungary
• TelekiA surname from Hungarian.
• TelkesA surname from Hungarian
• TiffanA surname from Hungarian.
• TiszabecsA village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Northern Great Plain, Great Plain and North, in eastern Hungary, near the border with Ukraine
• tormaA figure, made mostly of flour and butter, used in tantric rituals or as an offering in Tibetan Buddhism.
• ÚjpestA former village and town in Hungary; now the fourth district of Budapest.
• UramA surname from Hungarian.
• VanyoA surname from Hungarian.
• VarsanyiA surname from Hungarian.
• vashegyiteAn orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.
• VaydaA surname.