irodalom

== Hungarian == === Etymology === From ír (“to write”) +‎ -odalom (noun-forming suffix). Perhaps a calque of German Schrifttum. Displaced literatúra. First attested in 1830. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈirodɒlom] Rhymes: -om Hyphenation: iro‧da‧lom Syllabification: i‧ro‧da‧lom === Noun === irodalom (countable and uncountable, plural irodalmak) literature (body of all written works) Synonym: (dated) literatúra literature (collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture) Synonym: (dated) literatúra literature (all the papers, treatises, etc., published in academic journals on a particular subject) Synonym: (dated) literatúra (derogatory, figuratively, rare) fiction (verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead)) Synonym: kitalálás ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === irodalom 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. irodalom in Hungarian–English dictionary at SZTAKI