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Magyar

The Hungarians' name for themselves joins an Ugric word for 'person' — a root shared with the name of the Mansi of Siberia — with -er 'man'. The Ottomans, the South Slavs and the Russians all took the self-name, so Turks still call Hungarians Macar.

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From Hungarian to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Hungarian to Serbo-Croatian

From Hungarian to Russian

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