agár

== Hungarian == === Etymology === From Old Hungarian agar and earlier Agar. Borrowed from a West Slavic language. Compare Czech ohař, Polish ogar and Slovak ohar, from Proto-Slavic *ogarь. A direct borrowing from a (Oghuric) Turkic language is less likely. First attested in 1193. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɒɡaːr] Rhymes: -aːr Hyphenation: agár Syllabification: a‧gár === Noun === agár (plural agarak) sighthound (a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === agár in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025. Marek Stachowski, Eugen Helimskis Materialien zur Erforschung der ältesten slawisch-ungarischen Sprachkontakte, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 14 (2009): 35–107 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego: Kraków, page 41 agár in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.) === Further reading === agár 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. agár in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).