Topic: Hungarian

"alma"

Translation:apple

August 4, 2016

7 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/Superuncia

    It's almost same with the Turkish word for apple, "elma" (or its obsolete/dialectal form "alma")

    August 4, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/mizinamo

      This is not a coincidence; Hungarian borrowed the word from a Turkic language, according to Wiktionary.

      August 5, 2016
      https://www.duolingo.com/rhaichanalfauzi

        Why I was heard it like "olmo"? Or it just originally sound "alma"?

        January 1, 2017
        https://www.duolingo.com/csi

          The 'a' sound in Hungarian is similar to the 'a' sound in 'father'. The audio is correct. It's an 'a' not an 'o'.

          April 27, 2017
          https://www.duolingo.com/WarrenEsch
          • 959

          I think 'alma' also means 'soul' in Spanish :) Soul food!^^

          January 28, 2018
          https://www.duolingo.com/GrubbaFong

            When I listen to the pronunciation, I hear "alma", but it sounds somewhere between "alma" and "oyma". Is this merely my pecularity, or is it in fact pronounced slightly like oyma?

            June 27, 2018
            https://www.duolingo.com/GuilhermeP784777

              Why does it look like Turkish? (Elma)

              January 27, 2018
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