Balaton
English
Etymology
From Hungarian Balaton. Ultimately from a Slavic word for “mud; swamp”; compare Old Church Slavonic блато (blato).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbælətɒn/, /ˈbɒlətɒn/
Proper noun
Balaton
- A freshwater lake in Hungary, the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations.
- 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
- The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.
Translations
a lake in Hungary
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Hungarian
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Balaton
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɒlɒton]
- Hyphenation: Ba‧la‧ton
- Rhymes: -on
Proper noun
Balaton
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Balaton | — |
| accusative | Balatont | — |
| dative | Balatonnak | — |
| instrumental | Balatonnal | — |
| causal-final | Balatonért | — |
| translative | Balatonná | — |
| terminative | Balatonig | — |
| essive-formal | Balatonként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Balatonban | — |
| superessive | Balatonon | — |
| adessive | Balatonnál | — |
| illative | Balatonba | — |
| sublative | Balatonra | — |
| allative | Balatonhoz | — |
| elative | Balatonból | — |
| delative | Balatonról | — |
| ablative | Balatontól | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Balatoné | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Balatonéi | — |
| Possessive forms of Balaton | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Balatonom | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Balatonod | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Balatonja | — |
| 1st person plural | Balatonunk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Balatonotok | — |
| 3rd person plural | Balatonjuk | — |
Derived terms
Names of settlements in Hungary
- Balatonakali
- Balatonakarattya
- Balatonalmádi
- Balatonberény
- Balatonboglár
- Balatoncsicsó
- Balatonederics
- Balatonendréd
- Balatonfenyves
- Balatonföldvár
- Balatonfőkajár
- Balatonfüred
- Balatonfűzfő
- Balatongyörök
- Balatonhenye
- Balatonkenese
- Balatonkeresztúr
- Balatonlelle
- Balatonmagyaród
- Balatonmáriafürdő
- Balatonőszöd
- Balatonrendes
- Balatonszabadi
- Balatonszárszó
- Balatonszemes
- Balatonszentgyörgy
- Balatonszepezd
- Balatonszőlős
- Balatonudvari
- Balatonújlak
- Balatonvilágos
Names of former settlements [today neighborhoods or renamed]
- Balatonaliga
- Balatonarács
- Balatonbozsok
- Balatoncsehi
- Balatonfürjed
- Balatonhídvég
- Balatonkiliti
- Balatonkövesd
- Balatonmária
- Balatonszéplak
- Balatonújhely
- Balatonzamárdi
Other compound words
- Balaton-felvidék
- Balaton-medence
Expressions
- balatoni hínárbogár
- balatoni kecskeköröm
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