"Hova mászol?"

Translation: Where are you crawling?

[Ackerbau]

It says maszol is climb but translation says it is crawl.

[bdori]

it can be both

[Ackerbau]

If you hover the mouse on the word mászol it only says climb.

[bdori]

It's a mistake, report it.

[BetsyLowe]

I understand "Hova mászol?" as climbing to get somewhere, like to the top of a tree. However, if I wanted to ask someone, "Where are you climbing?" meaning, "Where are you going rock climbing?" would that be "HOL mászol?"

[BigWayne19]

-------- this is a really good question, bets. maybe one day we'll get an answer ? . . .

Big 25 feb 19

[Ksenia139960]

Thank sounds correct to me, but do not know the answer

[AmyHenwood]

Im confused as to how it can mean both climb AND crawl... these are completely different actions...

[mizinamo]

Are they so different?

They both involve moving on your hands and knees -- just that one is on a horizontal surface, the other on a vertical.

Consider a lizard crawling along the ground or climbing up a tree -- the motion is pretty similar.

[AmyHenwood]

But imagine the creature isn't one that walks by crawling... a goat would not crawl up a mountain, it would climb up it. I climb a ladder, and that is not on my hands and knees.
The English dictionary says:
Crawl - Move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground.
Climb - Go or come up a (slope or staircase); ascend
They seem pretty different to me!
This makes me ask the question: is the use of this word in Hungarian different to my understanding of it in English?

[chirelchirel]

The google image search for mászik gives an interesting mix of hard core climbers and babies :D

[AmyHenwood]

That's made my day - I've given you a lingot as a "thank you" hahahahaha :D

[woozlification]

Used in everyday Hungarian for babies wandering off, presumably towards something either dangerous or edible, or perhaps both.