different between kantar vs qantar

English

Alternative forms

• cantar, qantar

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (qin??r). Doublet of centenary and quintal.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?/

Noun

kantar (plural kantars)

1. a unit of weight used in Eastern Mediterranean countries, varying from place to place (44.93 kg in Egypt)

Translations

Anagrams

• tranka

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto kanti, Latin cant?, Italian cantare, Spanish cantar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?tar/

Verb

kantar (present tense kantas, past tense kantis, future tense kantos, imperative kantez, conditional kantus)

1. (transitive) to sing

Conjugation

Derived terms

• kantisto

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kantar m

1. indefinite plural of kant

Polish

Etymology

From Hungarian kantár, from Turkic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan.tar/

Noun

kantar m inan

1. halter (animal's headgear)

Declension

Further reading

• kantar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Latin cantharus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kántharos).

Noun

k?nt?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. sea bream

Etymology 2

From Hungarian kantár, from Turkic.

Noun

k?nt?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. halter
2. bridle

Etymology 3

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (kantar), from Arabic ????????? (qin??r), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kent?nárion), from Latin cent?n?rium (“hundredweight”).

Noun

kànt?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. steelyard
2. kantar

Swedish

Verb

kantar

1. present tense of kanta.

Anagrams

• kantra, kartan, tankar

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (kantar), from Arabic ????????? (qin??r), from Byzantine Greek ??????????? (kent?nárion), from Latin cent?n?rium.

Noun

kantar (definite accusative kantar?, plural kantarlar)

1. steelyard, or a scale in general

English

Noun

qantar (plural qantars)

1. Alternative spelling of kantar

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (qin??r), from Classical Syriac ???????? (qan??n?r?), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kent?nárion), from Latin cent?n?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an?ta?r/
• Rhymes: -a?r

Noun

qantar m (dual qantarejn, plural qnatar)

1. a traditional unit of weight, still used e.g. in farming, equivalent to 100 ratal, that is officially 175 imperial pounds (79.38 kg), now widely metrified informally to mean 80 kilogrammes

See also

• uqija
• ratal
• wi?na

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (qin??r).

Noun

qantar

1. A unit of weight: 1 qantar = 2.5 pot = 40.951 kg (archaic)
2. A unit of force: 1 qantar = 401.5949 N (newton) (archaic)

Declension