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szem

Pronunciation: [ˈsɛm]

“szem” is a Hungarian word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. eye (visual organ in humans and animals)
  2. eye (sight, look or attention)
  3. eye (point of view, perspective or opinion)
  4. grain (the harvested seed of various cereal crops)
  5. grain, speck (tiny particle of sand or dust)
  6. one piece of any small succulent fruit, especially those that grow in clusters
  7. one piece of something small, round and numerous, such as a bead of pearl, a medicine pill, etc.
  8. single, only (not accompanied by anything else, one in number)
  9. stitch (a single turn of the thread round a needle)

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *śilmä, then from szimi, via szüm in one dialect (such as the one used in the Old Hungarian Lamentations of Mary), resulting in dialectal szöm, as well as via szëm and the current, standard szem from another dialect.

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