Polgár
Encyclopedia
Polgár ˈpolɡaːr is a Hungarian
word meaning "citizen" (a loanword
from Germanic
, e.g. ).
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
word meaning "citizen" (a loanword
Loanword
A loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept where the meaning or idiom is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself. The word loanword is itself a calque of the German Lehnwort,...
from Germanic
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
, e.g. ).
Family names
Polgár, Polgar are the Hungarian-origin surname and may refer to:- Alfred Polgar (born Polak)Alfred PolgarAlfred Polgar was an Austrian-born journalist, one of the renowned wits of the Vienna coffeehouses. He left Austria in 1938, and later worked in Hollywood.He was known as a drama critic, in Berlin 1925 to 1933, and an essayist...
(1873 - 1955), Jewish Austrian writer - Franz Polgar (1900 - 1979), Hungarian psychologist, hypnotist, lecturer and entertainer
- László PolgárLászló PolgárLászló Polgár , is a Hungarian chess teacher and father of the famous "Polgár sisters": Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit. He authored well-known chess books such as Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games and Reform Chess, a survey of chess variants.László is an expert on chess theory and owns over...
(born 1946), Jewish Hungarian chess teacher, father of the Polgár sisters- The Polgár sisters, three famous chess players who are siblings:
- Zsuzsa (Susan) PolgárSusan PolgarSusan Polgar is a Hungarian-American chess Grandmaster...
(born 1969), Hungarian-American female chess player - Zsófia (Sofia) Polgár (born 1974), Hungarian-Israeli female chess player
- Judit PolgárJudit PolgárJudit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.Polgár was ranked No...
(born 1976), Hungarian female chess player
- Zsuzsa (Susan) Polgár
- The Polgár sisters, three famous chess players who are siblings:
- László PolgárLászló Polgár (bass)László Polgár was an Hungarian operatic bass.Born in Budapest, Hungary, he studied with Eva Kutrucz at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, 1967–72, and later privately with Hans Hotter and Yevgeny Nesterenko. He made his debut at the Hungarian State Opera in 1971, as Count Ceprano in Rigoletto...
(1947 - 2010), Hungarian operatic bass singer - Johannes Polgar, Johannes Sebastian Polgár (born 1977, OlpeOlpe, GermanyOlpe is situated in the foothills of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, roughly 60 km east of Cologne and 20 km northwest of Siegen. It is part of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg and is the seat of the district of Olpe.- Location :...
) (de) - Paul J. Polgar (born 1981), American historian, scholar, and educator