different between cair vs carr

English

Etymology

From Middle English cairen, kayren, from Old Norse keyra (“to whip, lash, fling, toss, prick on, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *kaurijan? (“tu turn, sweep”). Cognate with Icelandic keyra (“to run, drive, urge”), Swedish köra (“to drive, go, run”), Danish køre (“to drive”), Norwegian Bokmål kjøre (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk køyra (“to drive”), Old English ?ierran (“to turn, change, go, come”). More at char.

Verb

cair (third-person singular simple present cairs, present participle cairing, simple past and past participle caired)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To carry.
3. (transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.

Anagrams

• ACIR, AICR, Acri, CIRA, CRIA, Cira, arci, cria

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cair.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??a?r]
• Hyphenation: ca?ir

Adjective

cair

1. liquid: flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.

   Synonym: likuid

2. thin: of low viscosity or low specific gravity.

   Synonym: encer

   Antonym: kental

3. (figuratively) fluid: convertible into cash.
4. (figuratively) leaked: of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.

   Synonym: bocor

5. (figuratively) weak

   Synonym: lemah

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish cóir, from Old Irish coaïr, cóir.

Adjective

cair

1. just, right
2. due

Noun

cair f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. property
2. rights, privilege

Derived terms

• neuchairagh
• neuchairys

Mutation

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cahir (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese caer, from Vulgar Latin *cad?re, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cad?, from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?ad- (“to fall”). Cognate with Spanish caer and Galician caer.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?i?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?i(?)/, [k?.?i(?)]

Verb

cair (first-person singular present indicative caio, past participle caído)

1. (intransitive) to fall; to fall down; to drop

2. (transitive with de) to fall from (to fall so it is no longer attached to or on top of something)

3. (figuratively, intransitive) to fall; to collapse (to be overthrown, defeated or annulled)

4. (with the adverb bem or mal, intransitive, or transitive with com or em) to suit (to be appropriate or suitable)

5. (intransitive, with the adverb bem or mal, of food) to go down (to be eaten with or without causing indigestion)

6. (intransitive) to decrease (to lower in value or quantity)

7. (intransitive) to get disconnected, to be interrupted (of a call or connection)

8. (euphemistic, intransitive) to fall (to die in battle)

9. (of a subject or question, intransitive, or transitive with em) to be present in a test

Conjugation

Related terms

• esquecer
• queda

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??/
• Homophones: car, Carr, Karr
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

1. A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
   • 2007, Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, Tempus 2008, p. 16:

     The marsh lands or ‘carrs’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.

2. A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.

Etymology 2

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

1. Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).

Anagrams

• ACRR

Irish

Alternative forms

• cárr (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): [k????]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): [kæ???]

Noun

carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)

1. car (automobile)
2. cart (small, open, wheeled vehicle)

Declension

Synonyms

• (car, automobile): gluaisteán
• (cart): féan

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• "carr" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 carr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Etymology

From Celtic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rr/, [k?r?]

Noun

carr m

1. (Northumbria) stone, rock