bába = midwife
bacsó = master shepherd
bádogos = tinsmith, tinker
bajnok = fighter, champion
baka = foot soldier
bakter = night guard, line inspector, gatekeeper
bal = left [direction]
bánya = mine
bányamérnök = miner engineer
banyamester = miner master
bányamives = miner
bányamunkás = worker in a mine, miner [digger, pick & shovel man ?]
bányász = miner
bányatiszt = mine-officer; bánya = mine + tiszt = officer
baptista = Baptist
barát = friend
barna = brown
báró = baron
bátya = elder brother
Bécs = Vienna
becsületes = honest
bejegyzés ideje = date note made
bejelent = declares, reports
bejelentö = informant
bél = intestines; bowels
belsö = inner
belül = inside
bérés = [farm] hand, servant
béres hired = farm worker
(bér)kocsis = cabman, cab [carriage, hackney] driver
bérlö = [literally] a renter, i.e. "tenant", lessee, “under”-farmer; person who rented out farmland or a sharecropper, land tenant
bérmálás = confirmation [Catholic], to anoint
bermalasi neve = his / her Confirmation name
bérmálók = persons being confirmed
bérmunkás = day labourer, daily paid worker, servant
betegápoló = (sick)nurse
betegség vagy haláloka a halotti = sickness or other cause of death
betegség vagy más halálnemnek megnevezése = illness or other cause of death
bevándorlás = immigration
bevándorló = immigrant
Biblia = Bible
bibliográfia = bibliography
biró = judge, clerk, mayor
birodalom = empire
biróság = court
birtok = property
birtokos = landowner, landowning farmer, owner [land, house]
bitang = vagrant, vagabond
bizonyitvány = certificate, document
bizonyos = certain, sure
bizonyságok = testimonies [witnesses]
bizonytalan = uncertain
bognár = copper, barrel maker, wheel maker, tuber, hopper, cartwright, wheelwright. The word "bognár" came into the Hungarian language from the German word "Wagner" [w->b a->o g n e->a r]. Wheelwright is "a maker and repairer of wheels and wheeled vehicles; one guy doing all the work on the wooden vehicles" (the word goes back to the XIII century). The wheelwright [or wheeler] was often the village waggonwright [also known as a wainwright] as well, building all of the wooden conveyances, from wheelbarrow to horse-drawn wagon.
bojtár = shepherd
Böjtelö hava = February
Böjtmás hava = March
boldog = happy
Boldog Asszony hava = January
boldog Karacsony = Merry Christmas
boltos = shopkeeper
bör keresdedö = wine merchant
borbély = barber
böröndös = maker of (paner) basket from bulrush
börtön-ör = gaoler, turn-key
bugyor = bag. It is a slang word for táska, a bag which is held together with a string
bugyoros = bag-trader, the person who goes around and sell things from his/her bag
bútoros = furniture merchant
büvész = conjurer, juggler
DISEASES
baleset = accident
bányaszerencsétlenség = mine accident
bárányhimlö = chicken pox
basedow-kór = basedow sickness
belcsavarodás = intestine’s occlusion
bélfájás = literally bowel’s pain [colic or suffering due mesentery or other intestinal disorder like ulcer]
bélfekély = bowel’s ulcer
bélgyulladás = intestinal infestation of protozoan parasites, coccidiosis [parasitic infection of digestive tract], enteritis
bélhurut = bél+hurut = intestines+cold [inflammation]; intestinal catarrh, intestinal disease
bélrák = bowel’s cancer
bélszükület = intestine’s occlusion
bénulás = paralysis, palsy
betegség = disease, illness
bolondság = madness
börbetegség = cutaneous disease
börbetegség = skin sickness
bubópestis = bubonic plague
búskomorság = melancholy