different between quar vs fuar

English

Noun

quar (plural quars)

1. (obsolete) A quarry

   • A chrysolite, a gem, the very agate / Of state and policy, cut from the quar / Of Machiavel.

2. (slang) quarantine

Verb

quar (third-person singular simple present quars, present participle quarring, simple past and past participle quarred)

1. To choke or block (typically a river)

Albanian

Alternative forms

• quer

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *kl?(u)ra, related to qos. Cognate to Ancient Greek ???????? (kladarós, “fragile”), Old Irish claidim (“to empty”).

Noun

quar m (indefinite plural qore, definite singular quari, definite plural qoret)

1. prison, cellar, shelter

Related terms

• qos

References

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto kvar, French quatre, Italian quattro, Spanish cuatro, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwar/

Numeral

quar

1. four (4)

Old French

Alternative forms

• kar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kar/
• Homophones: kar, qar
• Rhymes: -ar

Conjunction

quar

1. for; because; due to this

Descendants

• French: car

English

Noun

fuar (plural fuars)

1. Alternative form of feuar

Anagrams

• Rauf, Urfa, frau

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish úar, from Proto-Celtic *ougros (compare Welsh oer), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ew?- (compare Old Armenian ??? (oyc)). The initial f- of Modern Irish comes from a misinterpretation of uar as fhuar in lenition environments.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?u???/

Adjective

fuar (genitive singular masculine fuair, genitive singular feminine fuaire, plural fuara, comparative fuaire)

1. cold
2. apathetic
3. without interest
4. uncooked

Declension

Synonyms

• (cold): dearóil
• (apathetic): fuarchúiseach, marbh, patuar, suanach
• (uncooked): amh

Derived terms

• adhfhuar (“very cold”, adjective)

Related terms

• fuacht (“coldness”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "fuar" 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 úar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fu.?r/

Noun

fuär n (genitive unattested)

1. verbal noun of fo·fera: provision, preparation
   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St. Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 48

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 81^c2

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fúr m
  • Irish: fúr

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish úar, from Proto-Celtic *ougros (compare Welsh oer), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ew?- (compare Old Armenian ??? (oyc)). The initial f- of Scottish Gaelic comes from a misinterpretation of uar as fhuar in lenition environments.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu??/

Adjective

fuar

1. cold, chilly, bleak, frigid, sober, stingy
2. stinging

Derived terms

Further reading

• “fuar” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 úar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language