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idő

Pronunciation: [ˈidøː]

“idő” is a Hungarian word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. time (the progression into the future with the passing of events into the past)
  2. time (numerical or general indication of a quantity of time)
  3. time (the present moment as indicated by a clock)
  4. time (the appropriate moment or hour for something)
  5. time zone (range of longitudes where a common standard time is used)
  6. era, time (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)
  7. one’s time (a person’s youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day)
  8. time-out (short break in the action of a sport)
  9. tense (any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action occurs)
  10. weather (short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place)

Etymology

Probably borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *öd (“time”) and cognates with Karakhanid اُذْ (öδ, “time”), Southern Altai ӧй (öy, “time”), Turkish öğle (“noon”). For the meaning of weather, compare Proto-Slavic *pogoda, Latin tempestas, and Old Irish…

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