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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?r (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l??/, [l??], [l??]

Noun

lar (plural lars or lares)

1. (Roman mythology, chiefly in the plural) singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
2. The lar gibbon.

Usage notes

The gibbon is pluralized as lars. The Latin household gods usually appear as the plurale tantum Lares, following its Latin plural form and capitalized to denote a particular group of lares; the alternative forms Lars, lares, and lars sometimes appear.

Anagrams

• ALR, LRA

Albanian

Etymology

An early borrowing from Latin laurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?/

Noun

lar m (indefinite plural larë, definite singular lari, definite plural larët)

1. (botany) laurel (Laurus nobilis)

Declension

Synonyms

• dafinë

Derived terms

• larëz, larth, larushkë

References

Galician

Etymology

From Latin larem (“guardian spirit; home”), from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?/

Noun

lar m (plural lares)

1. home (place or building where one dwells)

2. fireside
3. hearth
   • 1485, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 286:

     iten vnna caldeyra de trager agoa, iten hua caldeyra de sobre do lar, iten dous caldeyros de mao

     item, a bucket for carrying water; item a cauldron for hanging over the hearth; item two hand cauldrons

4. A household or ancestral god in ancient Rome

Synonyms

• (home): casa, fogar
• (fireside): lareira
• (hearth): ástrago, larega, sollo

Derived terms

• larada
• lareira (“fireplace”)
• larengo (“piglet”)
• lariño (“nest”) (snug residence)

References

• “lar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “lar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Alternative forms

• lars

Etymology

Probably from Etruscan ???????????? (lar), ???????????????? (lars), or ???????????????? (lar?, “lord”), though it could possibly be from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“eager”), cognate with lascivus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /la?r/, [??ä?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lar/, [l?r]

Noun

l?r m (genitive laris); third declension

1. the protective spirit of a place, particularly a household
2. home, household

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• Lar?s

Descendants

References

• Lar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lar in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Middle English

Noun

lar

1. Alternative form of lore

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lar

1. present tense of la

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lar

1. present tense of la

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laiz?, from *laizijan? (“to teach”). Cognate with Old Saxon l?ra, Dutch leer, Old High German l?ra (German Lehre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??r/

Noun

l?r f (nominative plural l?re)

1. teaching, learning, education
2. lesson
3. teaching, doctrine
4. advice, counsel

Declension

Derived terms

• b?cl?r
• misl?r

Related terms

• l?ran

Descendants

• Middle English: lore, lare, lar
  • Scots: lare, lair
  • English: lore

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin larem (“guardian spirit”), from Etruscan ???????????? (lar), ???????????????? (lars), or ???????????????? (lar?, “lord”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /la?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /la?/
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /la?/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /la?/

Noun

lar m (plural lares)

1. (endearing) home (place or building where one dwells)

   Synonym: casa

Related terms

• lareira

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin l?r, l?rem, in its current form most likely a learned borrowing. A popular or inherited form also existed, referring to the irons in a hearth on which vats were hung to heat water or make stews. The word may ultimately be of Etruscan origin.

Noun

lar m (plural lares)

1. hearth

   Synonym: hogar

See also

• casa f

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lárr, cognate with Finnish laari, Russian ???? (lar?), of unknown origin. Doublet of laar.

Noun

lar

1. Box.

Derived terms

• vealar

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lár, from Proto-Germanic *lahwaz.

Noun

lar

1. Thigh.

English

Alternative forms

• zaar

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (z?r).

Noun

zar (uncountable)

1. A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.

Anagrams

• Raz

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “die”), from Arabic ?????? (zahr, “cube, die”).

Noun

zar ?

1. die

Crimean Tatar

Noun

zar

1. membrane

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Alternative forms

• tsar
• czar (common, but not official)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?r/, [s???]
• Rhymes: -a??r

Noun

zar c (singular definite zaren, plural indefinite zarer)

1. tsar, czar

Inflection

Related terms

• zarina c

Further reading

• zar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Noun

zar m (plural zars)

1. A form of exorcism practised in Egypt

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian ???? (car?), via Old Church Slavonic ?????? (c?sar?), from Proto-Slavic *c?sa??, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Cesare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sar/

Noun

zar m (invariable)

1. tsar, czar

Derived terms

• zarina
• zarismo
• zarista

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?zar/

Noun

zar m (invariable)

1. zar

Northern Kurdish

Noun

zar ?

1. word
2. language

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “die”), from Arabic ?????? (zahr, “cube, die”).

Noun

zar n (plural zaruri)

1. die

Declension

Further reading

• zar in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *zaže, from *za + *že.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zâr/

Particle

z?r (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (auxiliary interrogative particle) used in tag questions, to ask for an affirmation to a polar question; don't, doesn't, isn't, aren’t, right

See also

• li (interrogative particle)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “wrap, membrane”), from Arabic ??????? (?iz?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zâ?r/

Noun

z?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. curtain
2. yashmak
3. veil

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “die”), from Arabic ?????? (zahr, “cube, die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zâr/

Noun

z?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. die

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (car?); see it for more. Doublet of César (“Caesar”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??a?/, [??a?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sa?/, [?sa?]

Noun

zar m (plural zares)

1. tsar, czar

Related terms

• zarina f

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “die”), from Arabic ?????? (zahr, “, cube, die”) from Ancient Greek ??????? (téssera, “four”) from Ancient Greek ??????? (téssara, “four”)

Noun

zar (definite accusative zar?, plural zarlar)

1. die

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “wrap, membrane”), from Arabic ??????? (?iz?r).

Noun

zar (definite accusative zar?, plural zarlar)

1. membrane
2. diaphragm
3. film
4. skin

Turkmen

Noun

zar (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

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Volapük

Noun

zar (nominative plural zars)

1. tsar

Declension