negyed

Negyed is a Hungarian word with several related meanings. Most commonly, it denotes one fourth of a whole: a quarter, as in 0.25 of something. In mathematics and everyday speech, it is used with numerals or measures, for example: "egy negyed liter tejet" (a quarter liter of milk) or "egy negyed óra" (fifteen minutes). The term is also used in urban geography to describe a district or quarter of a city or town, a geographic subdivision within an urban area. In this sense, negyed is common in planning, addressing, and description of urban spaces, as in phrases like "az új negyed" or "a belvárosi negyed."

Etymology and scope: negyed derives from the root negy- meaning "four" with the suffix -ed, forming a noun that indicates a partition into four equal parts. The sense of a city quarter has become a standard usage in Hungarian, though it is often interchangeable with terms like városrész or kerület depending on local administrative conventions.

Usage notes: negyed can be combined with cardinal numbers to specify a particular quarter, or with time or volume units to express fractions of a unit. In time, the expression negyed óra is especially common for indicating 15 minutes. In spatial use, negyed appears in everyday speech, media, and official language to refer to parts of a city or town.

See also: negyedóra, negyed liter, városrész, kerület.