világ

== Hungarian == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *walke (compare Finnish valkea, Estonian valge, and Northern Sami vielgat). Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Slavic, which displaced the original meaning illumination. Compare Romanian lume and Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ). First attested in the 12th c. Doublet of virág. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈvilaːɡ] Rhymes: -aːɡ Hyphenation: vi‧lág Syllabification: vi‧lág Homophone: Világ === Noun === világ (plural világok) world A világ egy falu. ― The world is a village. (obsolete or regional) illumination, light, brightness, sight (in set phrases with hoz, jön, segít and their derivations) life, birth (as a result of delivery) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === See also === föld === References === === Further reading === világ 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. világ in Hungarian–English dictionary at SZTAKI