hagyma

 hagyma on Hungarian Wikipedia

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *koćmɜ (“a species of bulbous plant”) + -a (noun-forming suffix or perhaps diminutive suffix).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒɟmɒ]

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• Hyphenation: hagy‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

hagyma (plural hagymák)

1. (colloquial) onion (Allium cepa, a monocotyledonous plant used as vegetable and spice)

   Synonym: vöröshagyma

2. bulb (the bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown)

• hagyma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN