hossz

== Hungarian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈhosː] Hyphenation: hossz Rhymes: -osː === Etymology 1 === Back-formation from hossza (“its length”), the 3rd-person possessive form of hosszú (“long”, [obsolete] “length”); for its word-final vowel alternation ú ~ a, compare borjú → borja and others. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries, from phrases like egyhosszában (“in a row”, rare; synonym of egyvégtében), se vége, se hossza (“[there is/was] no end to…”). ==== Noun ==== hossz (plural hosszak) (with a possessive suffix) length (the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object; total extent) [from 1808] Synonym: hosszúság (with a possessive suffix) length, duration Synonyms: tartam, időtartam length (the length of a swimming pool as a measure of distance swum) (horse racing) length (the length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race) (obsolete) line [1784] Synonyms: vonal, vonás ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== See at hosszú. === Etymology 2 === Internationalism from French hausse (“rise, increase”). ==== Noun ==== hossz (plural hosszok) (economy) (fast) rise, boom, advance Synonyms: emelkedés, fellendülés, erősödés, konjunktúra Antonyms: bessz, esés, zuhanás, csökkenés, hanyatlás, dekonjunktúra, recesszió ===== Declension ===== === References === === Further reading === (length): hossz 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. (rise, boom, advance): hossz 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.