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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

Etymology

From Hindi ????? (gv?r), from Sanskrit ?????? (gop?l?, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from ??????????? (gop?lakarka??, “cowherder's cucumber”), from ????? (gop?la, “cowherd”) + ?????? (karka??, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).

Noun

guar (plural guars)

1. An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.

Synonyms

• (Cyanopsis tetragonoloba): cluster bean, guar bean

Related terms

• guaran
• guar gum

Translations

Further reading

• guar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gura, Urga, gaur, ragu, ragù, ruga

Charrua

Noun

guar

1. hand

References

• El último charrúa: de Salsipuedes a la actualidad (1996)
• Idioma español y habla criolla: Charrúas y vilelas (1968)
• ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 62

Malay

Noun

guar (plural guar-guar, informal 1st possessive guarku, impolite 2nd possessive guarmu, 3rd possessive guarnya)

1. mound, hillock

   Synonym: anak bukit

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Hindi ????? (gv?r), from Sanskrit ?????? (gop?l?, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from ??????????? (gop?lakarka??, “cowherder's cucumber”), from ????? (gop?la, “cowherd”) + ?????? (karka??, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??wa?/, [??wa?]

Noun

guar m (plural guares)

1. guar

Related terms

• goma guar

Further reading

• “guar”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN