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

  1. 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

Hungarian

Balaton

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɒlɒton]
  • Hyphenation: Ba‧la‧ton
  • Rhymes: -on

Proper noun

Balaton

  1. Balaton (a freshwater lake in Hungary)
    Synonym: (informal) Balcsi
  2. A village in Heves County, Hungary

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
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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