Category:Hungarian rhymes/a-

The short sound [a] occurs in Hungarian borrowings from various other languages, such as English (e.g. husky, pub, update, upgrade, make-up, bungee jumping, struggle for life, Buckingham, Connecticut, Dublin, Huckleberry Finn, Miami, Thomas Hunt, Mulliken, Newcastle, Rutherford, Starbucks, Uncle Sam, Updike), French (e.g. adieu, à la carte, cabernet, c’est la vie, croissant, voilà, voyeur, déjà vu, madame, Bastille, Braque, Bretagne, Calais, Camembert, Camus, Cannes, Cézanne, Jacques, Manet, Marseille), German (e.g. Hans, Andreas, Carl, Maximilian, Handke, Harnoncourt), Italian (e.g. arpeggio, al fine, bel canto, campanile, largo, passacaglia, Leonardo da Vinci, Cagliari, Gabriele, Alessandro, Marcello, De Amicis, Manzoni, Mascagni), Portuguese (e.g. curaçao, Camões, Magalhães), Spanish (e.g. piña colada, Bolívar, La Paz, Cádiz, Falla, Ortega y Gasset, Ramón y Cajal, San Salvador), Romanian (e.g. Brăila), Danish (e.g. Hammarskjöld, Hans Christian), Czech (e.g. Jaroslav), Polish (e.g. Poznań), Lithuanian (e.g. Kaunas), Latin (e.g. hippocampus, in memoriam, ad notam).

It is also found in some Hungarian words, e.g. hal(l)ó on the phone (as distinct from haló, halló, and háló), as well as in advent, kalcium, latens, páciens, Thaiföld, Svájc, Szecsuan, Vietnám, sometimes alternating in pronunciation with the sound indicated by -á- or less commonly -a-. It is usually transcribed in Hungarian as an ȧ with a dot above.