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UGRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ugric mean? 

UGRIC (noun)
  The noun UGRIC has 1 sense:

1. one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberiaplay

  Familiarity information: UGRIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UGRIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Ugrian; Ugric

Hypernyms ("Ugric" is a kind of...):

Finno-Ugrian; Finno-Ugric (a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Ugric"):

Hungarian; Magyar (the official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages)

Khanty; Ostyak (a Ugric language (related to Hungarian) spoken by the Ostyak)

Mansi; Vogul (the Ugric language (related to Hungarian) spoken by the Vogul)


 Context examples 


Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin gave them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, ay, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the were-wolves themselves had come.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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