Turkish Loanwords in Hungarian

Hungarian has borrowed words from Turkish. This is because Hungary was part of the Ottoman Empire for 145 years. Here is a list of 10 words with the Turkish word on the left and the Hungarian one on the right:

arpa árpa (barley)
cep zseb (pocket)
çizme csizma (boot)
deniz tenger (sea)
deve teve (camel)
elma alma (apple)
ikiz iker (twin)
kapı kapu (gate)
pamuk pamut (cotton)
sakal szakáll (beard)

In the word pairs deniz/tenger and ikiz/iker we see the change of /z/ to /r/. The change of a consonant to the sound /r/ is rhotacism. The word pairs deniz/tenger and deve/teve illustrate the change from /d/ to /t/. Here the sound change is devoicing. With the words pamuk/pamut we see that the /k/ of Turkish becomes /t/ in Hungarian.

Hungarian has borrowed a number of words from Turkish. In the list the similarity of the words is evident. Hungary was part of the Ottoman Empire for over 100 years. As a result, it is not surprising that it has borrowed words from Turkish.