German

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Etymology

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Late 17th century, from French bizarre, from Italian bizzarro. The chronology of earliest attestations suggests that it may have passed through Low German (mid-17th c.) and Dutch (early 17th c.), rather than being an immediate borrowing from French.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /biˈtsar/, [biˈt͡saʁ], [bɪ-], [-ˈt͡saɐ̯], [-ˈt͡saː]
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  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
  • Hyphenation: bi‧zarr

Adjective

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bizarr (strong nominative masculine singular bizarrer, comparative bizarrer, superlative am bizarrsten)

  1. bizarre

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Translingual: Bizarrifrons

Further reading

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  • bizarr” in Duden online
  • bizarr”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
  • bizarr” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Internationalism, it came into Hungarian mostly via German bizarr. Compare French bizarre, Italian bizzarro. First attested in 1790.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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bizarr (comparative bizarrabb, superlative legbizarrabb)

  1. bizarre
    Synonyms: furcsa, különös

Declension

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or

References

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  1. ^ bizarr in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.

Further reading

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  • bizarr in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • bizarr in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).