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spar
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sp??/
- (US) IPA(key): /sp??/, [sp??], [sp??]
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: spa (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear, park.
Noun
spar (plural spars)
- A rafter of a roof.
- A thick pole or piece of wood.
- (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
- (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
Derived terms
- spar buoy
- spar deck
- spar torpedo
Translations
Verb
spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)
- (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
- (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
Derived terms
- oversparred, undersparred
Etymology 2
From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrask (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”).
Verb
spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)
- To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
- To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
- To contest in words; to wrangle.
Translations
Noun
spar (plural spars)
- A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
Etymology 3
From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærst?n (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).
Noun
spar (countable and uncountable, plural spars)
- (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
- (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
Descendants
- ? Irish: sparra
- ? Welsh: sbar
Translations
Anagrams
- APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, rasp, sapr-
Danish
Etymology 1
From Spanish espada (“sword”), from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “blade”).
Noun
spar c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite sparer)
- spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)
Inflection
Etymology 2
See spare (“to save,spare”).
Verb
spar
- imperative of spare
See also
- spar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Spar (kulør) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sparre (“pole, beam”), from Old Dutch *sparro, from Frankish *sparro, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô. Cognate to West Frisian spjir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?r/
- Hyphenation: spar
- Rhymes: -?r
Noun
spar m (plural sparren, diminutive sparretje n)
- spruce; certain tree of the family Pinaceae, especially of the genus Picea, but also used for trees of the genera Abies, Tsuga and Pseudotsuga.
Derived terms
- blauwspar
- douglasspar
- fijnspar
- Nordmannspar
- zilverspar
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pa???]
Verb
spar
- singular imperative of sparen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of sparen
Icelandic
Adjective
spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)
- economical
- thrifty
Declension
Middle English
Verb
spar
- Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)
Noun
spar
- spades (suit in playing cards)
Etymology 2
Verb
spar
- imperative of spare
References
- “spar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)
Noun
spar m (definite singular sparen, indefinite plural spar or sparar, definite plural sparane)
- spades (suit in playing cards)
Etymology 2
Verb
spar
- present of spa
- imperative of spara
References
- “spar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Verb
spar
- present tense of spara.
- imperative of spara.
Anagrams
- pars, raps
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skar
English
Alternative forms
- skare
Etymology
From the root of scare.
Adjective
skar (comparative more skar, superlative most skar)
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) wild; timid; shy
Anagrams
- AKRs, Kars, Sark, arks, kars, ksar, sark
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?s????]
Verb
skar
- past tense of skære
Latvian
Verb
skar
- 2nd person singular present indicative form of skart
- 3rd person singular present indicative form of skart
- 3rd person plural present indicative form of skart
- 2nd person singular imperative form of skart
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of skart
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of skart
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
skar
- simple past of skjære
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
skar
- past tense of skjera and skjere
Etymology 2
From Old Norse skarð, from Proto-Germanic *skard?. Cognates include English shard.
Alternative forms
- skard (alternative spelling)
Noun
skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)
- a mountain pass; a navigable ravine
- Synonyms: fjellovergang, pass
- a shard
- a notch, chink, gap
Etymology 3
From Old Norse skarsl. Related to skjera (“to cut”).
Noun
skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)
- snuff of a candle (the burnt part of a wick)
- Synonym: snart
Etymology 4
From Old Norse sk?r f, from Proto-Germanic *skar?. Related to skjera (“to cut”). Cognates include English share.
Noun
skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)
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Etymology 5
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
skar
- present tense of ska
References
- “skar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- kras, raks, rask
Old Norse
Verb
skar
- first/third-person singular past indicative active of skera
Swedish
Verb
skar
- past tense of skära.
Anagrams
- Rask, arks, kars, rask
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