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Hungarian names include surnames and given names. Some people have more than one given name, but only one is normally used. In the Hungarian language, whether written or spoken, names are invariably given in the "Eastern name order", with the family name followed by the given name (in foreign-language texts in languages that use Western name order, names are often given with the family name last).
The World Tree carved on a pot. Amongst the modern religions, Hungarian mythology is closest to the cosmology of Uralic peoples. In Hungarian myth, the world is divided into three spheres: the first is the Upper World (Felső világ), the home of the gods; the second is the Middle World (Középső világ) or world we know, and finally the underworld (Alsó világ).
Named after the city of Arad, formerly Urod (11th century) after the name of a Hungarian knight, probably from the root ur meaning lord, meaning a place, which belongs to your (-od/today:ad) lord (úr). Argeș. Dacian. Named after the Argeș River, in ancient times Argessos, probably meaning "shiny". Bacău.
Béla (given name) Béla ( Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ]; Slavic variants are Bela or Belo) is a common Hungarian male given name. Its most likely etymology is from old Hungarian bél ("heart; insides" in Old Hungarian and "intestines" in modern Hungarian; in both the symbolism is "guts" i.e. bravery and character). Another possible source is a Turkic ...
Name of Hungary. "Iuhra", "the place of origin of Hungarians " ( inde ungaroru origo) on Sigismund von Herberstein 's map of AD 1549 of Moscovia, located east of the Ob River. Hungary, the name in English for the European country, is an exonym derived from the Medieval Latin Hungaria. The Latin name itself derives from the ethnonyms (H)ungarī ...
Pages in category "Hungarian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 491 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Magyar tribes. The appearance of Hungarian tribe names in settlement names. It suggests where arriving Hungarians lived amongst other peoples and helped in reconstructing where arriving tribes settled. The Magyar or Hungarian tribes ( / ˈmæɡjɑːr / MAG-yar, Hungarian: magyar törzsek) or Hungarian clans were the fundamental political units ...
Szabó ( Hungarian: [ˈsɒboː]) is a common Hungarian surname, meaning "tailor". In 2019, it occurred in 203,126 names, making it the fourth most frequent Hungarian surname. [1] In Czech and Slovak, a female form is Szabóová .