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Kolozsvár

[ kaw-lawzh-vahr ]
/ ˈkɔ lɔʒˌvɑr /

noun

Hungarian name of Cluj-Napoca.
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Examples from the Web for kolozsvar

  • In a few minutes the young man, disguised as a Wallachian peasant, was hastening on foot across the hills to Kolozsvar.

    Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War|Mr Jkai

  • One evening Manasseh pointed to a town in the distance, and told his companion that it was Kolozsvar.

    Manasseh|Maurus Jokai

  • Your brother Simon is a shrewder man; he has been to school at Kolozsvar.

    Manasseh|Maurus Jokai

  • Blanka came to meet her husband as far as Kolozsvar, bringing her little daughter Ilonka with her.

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British Dictionary definitions for kolozsvar

Kolozsvár
/ (ˈkoloʒvaːr) /

noun

the Hungarian name for Cluj
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012