Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a group of Finno-Ugric peoples of western Siberia and Hungary, including the Magyars.
  • noun Ugric.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to that group of peoples which includes the Voguls, Ostiaks, and Magyars.
  • Noting the Finno-Hungarian group of languages, comprising the tongues of the Lapps, Finns, and Magyars or Hungarians. It is a branch of the Ural-Altaic family.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Ethnol.) A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A member of the race of ancestors of the present Hungarians.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Old Russian Ugre, Hungarians, of Turkic origin.]

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Ugrian.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.