different between spar vs spaw

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)

1. A rafter of a roof.
2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. (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 […].

4. (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
5. (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)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
2. (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)

1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. To contest in words; to wrangle.

Translations

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. 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)

2. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
3. (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)

1. spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See spare (“to save,spare”).

Verb

spar

1. 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)

1. 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

1. singular imperative of sparen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of sparen

Icelandic

Adjective

spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)

1. economical
2. thrifty

Declension

Middle English

Verb

spar

1. Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)

Noun

spar

1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

Verb

spar

1. 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)

1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

Verb

spar

1. present of spa
2. imperative of spara

References

• “spar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

spar

1. present tense of spara.
2. imperative of spara.

Anagrams

• pars, raps

English

Noun

spaw (plural spaws)

1. Archaic form of spa.
   • 1728, Of Bathing in the Hot-baths, at Bathe

     The Aix-la-Chapelle Waters are drunk at this Day, more as Purgers, and Preparatives for the Spaw, […]

Anagrams

• APWs, AWPs, WAPs, WASP, WSPA, paws, swap, waps, wasp

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spaf/

Noun

spaw m inan

1. weld (joint made by welding)

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) spawacz, spawaczka, spawarka
• (verb) spawa?

Further reading

• spaw in Polish dictionaries at PWN