different between ajar vs apar

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??d????/

Etymology 1

From Middle English ajar, on char (“on [the] turn”), from on (“on”) + char (“turn, occasion”), from Old English ?ierr, cyrr (“turn”), from Old English ?ierran (“to turn, convert”), equivalent to a- +? char. Akin to Dutch akerre, kier (“ajar”), German kehren (“to turn”). See char.

Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

1. Slightly turned or opened.

Translations

Adjective

ajar (comparative more ajar, superlative most ajar)

1. Slightly turned or opened.

Translations

Verb

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
   • 1970, John H. Evans, Mercer County law journal, Volume 10,

     A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.

Etymology 2

a- (“in, at”) +? jar (“discord, disagreement”)

Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Out of harmony.
2. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.14:

     There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar […] .

Translations

Verb

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
   • 1907, The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 36,

     It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.

Translations

Anagrams

• raja

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ajar, from Sanskrit ?????? (?c?rya, “teacher, master”), likely derived from ???? (?c?ra, “conduct, behavior”). Doublet of acara, acarya, and hajar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??ar/

Verb

ajar (used in the form mengajar)

1. to teach

Conjugation

This verb has irregular forms when affixed to ber- and per- which resulted on initial -l- on belajar and pelajar (also an noun), otherwise conjugated regularly like intransitive meng- verbs. Some forms of the locative does not exist.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ajar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (?c?rya, “teacher, master”).

Verb

ajar (Jawi spelling ????)

1. to teach

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ajar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ahajar (obsolete)

Etymology

From older ahajar, from Old Spanish haja, probably from Vulgar Latin *fallia (“defect”), from Latin fall?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?xa?/, [a?xa?]

Verb

ajar (first-person singular present ajo, first-person singular preterite ajé, past participle ajado)

1. (transitive and reflexive) to fade, wither

   Synonym: marchitar

Conjugation

Further reading

• “ajar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

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Noun

apar (plural apars)

1. The three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus

Translations

See also

• Southern Three-Banded Armadillo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AARP, ARPA, Paar, Para., Pará, Rapa, para, para-, para.

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.par/

Noun

apar ?

1. foam

Declension

Icelandic

Noun

apar

1. indefinite nominative plural of api

Italian

Etymology

From Spanish apar, from Old Tupi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?par/
• Hyphenation: a?pàr

Noun

apar m (invariable)

1. Synonym of mataco (“southern three-banded armadillo”)

References

• apar in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

apar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of ap?

Latvian

Verb

apar

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of apart
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of apart
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of apart
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of apart
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of apart
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of apart

Luo

Numeral

apar

1. ten

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• aper

Noun

apar m or f

1. indefinite masculine plural of ape

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?par]

Etymology

Either from ap? +? -ar or from the Latin aqu?rius. Compare the borrowed doublet acvariu.

Noun

apar m (plural apari)

1. water-vendor

Declension

Related terms

• ap?

Verb

apar

1. first-person singular present indicative of ap?rea
2. third-person plural present indicative of ap?rea
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ap?rea

Swedish

Verb

apar

1. present tense of apa.

Anagrams

• para, rapa