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tar

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /t??/, [t???], [t???]
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terw? (compare Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer), from Proto-Indo-European *derwo- (compare Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian ??????? (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian ?????? (d?rvó, “tree”)), from *dóru (“tree”). More at tree.

Noun

tar (countable and uncountable, plural tars)

  1. (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
  2. Coal tar.
  3. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
  4. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
    Synonym: Jack Tar
    • 1915, W. McMann, Our Picture Show, Western Evening Herald:
      If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar.
    • August 10 1723, Jonathan Swift, "To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough"[1]:
      Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar.
  5. (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

  1. (transitive) To coat with tar.
  2. (transitive) To besmirch.
    The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.
    • 1995, Paul Robinson, The Gate Contracts
      Dr. Sign: In fact, maybe you think I should get credit, but if I do, Dr. Frendall will be scorned. You know why
      Dr. Ellsworth: Yes, I know. Your critics will tar him with the same brush as you.
Derived terms
  • tar and feather
  • tar with the same brush
Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of tape archive.

Noun

tar (plural tars)

  1. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
  2. (computing) A file produced by such a program.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

  1. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
Antonyms
  • untar
Derived terms
  • untar

Etymology 3

From Persian ???? (târ).

Alternative forms

  • t?r

Noun

tar (plural tars)

  2. A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
Translations
See also
  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Etymology 4

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

Noun

tar (plural tars)

  1. A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
See also
  • Appendix:Glossary of membranophones
References
  • 2001. Drum Circle: A Guide to World Percussion. Chalo Eduardo, Frank Kumor. Pg. 18.

Anagrams

  • 'art, 'rat, ART, ATR, Art, RAT, RTA, Rat, art, art., rat, tra

Aromanian

Noun

tar m (plural tari)

  1. donkey

Synonyms

  • gumar/yumar, shonj/shonjiu, cãci, tãronj/tãroanji, uci, uricljat, dãnglãrã, dãngã

Derived terms

  • tãronj

Asturian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin st?re, present active infinitive of st?. Compare Spanish estar, Aragonese estar, Galician estar, Portuguese estar, Catalan estar.

Verb

tar

  1. to be (referring to geographical place)
  2. to be (referring to something temporary)
  3. to be (for use in constructing continuous verb forms)

Conjugation

  • Reference: http://www.academiadelallingua.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gramatica_Llingua.pdf

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian ???? (târ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t?r]

Noun

tar (definite accusative tar?, plural tarlar)

  1. tar

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from an Oghur language, before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), from Proto-Turkic *t?? (“bald”). Cognates include Turkish dazlak (“bald”), Karakhanid ????? (t?z, “bald”), and Middle Mongolian [script needed] (tarasun, “bald”), the latter perhaps a Turkic borrowing too.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?t?r]
  • Rhymes: -?r

Adjective

tar (not comparable)

  1. bald
    Synonym: kopasz

Declension

Derived terms

  • tarol

References

Further reading

  • tar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tar/
  • Hyphenation: tar

Noun

tar (first-person possessive tarku, second-person possessive tarmu, third-person possessive tarnya)

  1. Alternative spelling of tir (chess pieces).

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tar/
  • Hyphenation: tar

Noun

tar (first-person possessive tarku, second-person possessive tarmu, third-person possessive tarnya)

  1. (onomatopoeic) whipping sound.

Etymology 3

From Dutch taart, from Middle Dutch t?erte, from Old French tarte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tar/
  • Hyphenation: tar

Noun

tar (first-person possessive tarku, second-person possessive tarmu, third-person possessive tarnya)

  1. (cooking) a type of cake.
    Synonym: kue tar

Etymology 4

From English tar, from Proto-Germanic *terw?, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tar/
  • Hyphenation: tar

Noun

tar (first-person possessive tarku, second-person possessive tarmu, third-person possessive tarnya)

  1. tar, the solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.

Usage notes

Other definition of tar translated into ter or tir.

Further reading

  • “tar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish do·icc. The imperative is from a related verb, do·airicc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t??a??/

Verb

tar (present analytic tagann, future analytic tiocfaidh, verbal noun teacht, past participle tagtha)

  1. to come
  2. to survive

Conjugation

Forms based on the stem tig- (e.g. tigim and tig/tigeann) are found in Ulster and parts of Munster; forms based on the stem teag- (e.g. teagaim and teagann) are found in parts of Connacht.

The present analytic tig is particularly common in tar le (“be able”).

The obsolete present subjunctive tí is now found only in the preposition go dtí (“to, toward, up to, until”).

Alternative forms of the second-person singular imperative include tair in Munster, teara in Connemara, and gabh in Ulster.

Derived terms

Mutation

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (??ra, “to fly”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta?r/
  • Rhymes: -a?r

Verb

tar (imperfect jtir)

  1. to fly

Conjugation

Related terms

  • tajjar
  • tajran
  • mitjar

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish do·icc.

Verb

tar (verbal noun çheet, simple past haink, future hig, conditional harragh)

  1. to come

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • tar er-ash (“return”)

Middle English

Determiner

tar

  1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þeir

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Verb

tar

  1. present of ta

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tar

  1. present of ta

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • dar

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *terh?-. Cognate with Welsh tra and Latin tr?ns and Breton treuz.

Preposition

tar (with accusative)

  1. over, across

Inflection

Forms combined with the definite article:

  • tarsin (masculine/feminine singular)
  • tarsa (neuter singular)
  • tarsna (plural all genders)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

  • tarm(u), darm (first person singular)
  • t(a)ra, dara (third person)

Forms combined with a possessive pronoun:

  • tar(s)a·, dara·

Derived terms

  • tar cenn

Descendants

  • Irish: thar
  • Manx: har, harrish
  • Scottish Gaelic: thar

Further reading

  • Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, §§ 434, 854
  • Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, ?ISBN, page 150

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tar/

Noun

tar f

  1. genitive plural of tara

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • tá (Brazil)

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /?ta?/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?ta/

Verb

tar

  1. (Portugal) Nonstandard spelling of estar.
    • 1983, Manuel da Costa Fontes, Romanceiro da Ilha de São Jorge, Universidade de Coimbra, page 236:

Romanian

Etymology

From Hungarian tár

Noun

tar m (plural taruri)

  1. unit of measurement for weights

Declension

Swedish

Verb

tar

  1. present tense of ta.

Anagrams

  • art

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kar

English

Noun

kar (plural kars)

  1. (marketing, in product names) Deliberate misspelling of car.
    • 1989, International Shrine Clowns Association, page 26:
      In the fifties the need for a Klown vehicle was evident and a King Midget Frame was acquired and a Klown Kar was added.

Anagrams

  • AKR, Ark, Ark., RAK, RKA, ark, kra

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kar, from Middle Dutch carre, from Latin carrus or the mediaeval variant carra, from Gaulish carros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kar/

Noun

kar (plural karre, diminutive karretjie)

  1. cart
  2. car, automobile

Synonyms

  • wa

Albanian

Etymology

According to Orel, borrowed from Romani kar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ka?]
  • IPA(key): [ka?] (Gheg)

Noun

kar m (indefinite plural kar, definite singular kari, definite plural karet)

  1. (anatomy) penis
  2. (slang, vulgar) cock, dick

Declension

Derived terms

  • karuc m (diminutive)

Synonyms

  • penis m (chiefly formal)
  • bile m
  • luc m (childish)
  • karuc m (colloquial, slightly vulgar, diminutive)
  • dërrasë f (vulgar)
  • hu m (vulgar)

References

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian ??? (kar).

Adjective

kar (comparative daha kar, superlative ?n kar)

  1. deaf
  2. (phonetics, of a consonant) voiceless

Antonyms

  • (of a consonant): cingiltili

Breton

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k??r/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *kar, from Proto-Celtic *karants.

Noun

kar m (plural kerent)

  1. relative
Mutation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kar

  1. Hard mutation of gar.
Mutation

Chuukese

Adjective

kar

  1. hot

Czech

Noun

kar m

  1. cirque

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse ker.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka/, [k??]
  • Rhymes: -ar

Noun

kar n (singular definite karret, plural indefinite kar)

  1. vessel
  2. trough

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch carre, from Latin carrus or the mediaeval variant carra, from Gaulish carros. Doublet of ros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?r/
  • Hyphenation: kar
  • Rhymes: -?r

Noun

kar f (plural karren, diminutive karretje n)

  1. A cart.
  2. Any wheeled vehicle, in particular a car or truck.

Derived terms

  • golfkar
  • handkar
  • hondenkar
  • huifkar
  • karren
  • karrenvracht
  • ossenkar
  • racekar
  • sleepkar
  • steekkar
  • strijdkar

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: kar

Elfdalian

Noun

kar n

  1. tub, bathtub

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?k?r]
  • Rhymes: -?r

Etymology 1

From a Turkic language.

Noun

kar (plural karok)

  2. arm (upper limb of a human or animal)
  3. lever (a rod with one end fixed, which can be pulled to trigger or control a mechanical device)
  4. crank (bent piece of an axle used to impart a rotation to a mechanical device)
  5. (only with the suffix -ban (“in”), often preceded by jó (“good”) or rossz (“bad”)) condition (the state or quality; the health status of a medical patient)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin chorus.

Noun

kar (plural karok)

  2. faculty (scholarly staff at colleges or universities; usually preceded by the adjective denoting the members, e.g. tanári kar (“teaching staff”))
  3. faculty (department at a university, e.g. that of arts, science, or law)
    Meronym: tanszék
  4. a group of people performing together (choir, chorus, chorus line, ensemble, etc.)
    Hyponyms: énekkar, tánckar, zenekar
Declension
Derived terms

Usage notes

These two nouns are almost completely homonymous except for the third person single-object possessive forms and all multiple-object possessive forms, the first one (with the sense "arm") having an extra -j- between the root and the possessive ending.

Further reading

  • (arm, lever): kar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
  • (faculty; ensemble): kar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?a?r/
  • Rhymes: -a?r

Etymology 1

From Danish kar, from Old Norse ker. Doublet of ker. Cognate with Swedish kar.

Noun

kar n (genitive singular kars, nominative plural kör)

  1. tub
Declension
Derived terms
  • baðkar

Etymology 2

From English car.

Noun

kar n (genitive singular kars, nominative plural kör)

  1. (colloquial, North America) car, automobile
Declension
Synonyms
  • bíll
Related terms
  • (colloquial, North American) strítkar (“streetcar”)

K'iche'

Noun

kar

  1. fish

Latvian

Verb

kar

  1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of k?rt
  2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of k?rt
  3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of k?rt
  4. 2nd person singular imperative form of k?rt
  5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of k?rt
  6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of k?rt

Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kar

  1. they

Northern Kurdish

Noun

kar m

  1. work, labor

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Noun

kar m (definite singular karen, indefinite plural karer, definite plural karene)

  1. a bloke, chap, fellow, guy, man
Usage notes
  • Between 1938 and 1983, kara was a co-standard definite plural form. The form is now considered dialectal. This morphological peculiarity was shared with a choice other masculine nouns: gamp, gutt, hest, and tupp.
Derived terms
  • ågerkar

Etymology 2

From Danish kar, from Old Norse ker, in the sense of blood vessels influenced by Latin vas

Noun

kar n (definite singular karet, indefinite plural kar, definite plural kara or karene)

  1. a container, vessel, tub, vat
  2. a (fish) trap (e.g. for salmon)
  3. a pier (for a bridge)
  4. a vessel, artery, tube in a body or plant
Derived terms
  • badekar
  • blodkar
  • brokar

References

  • “kar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “kar_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “kar_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??r/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of kall.

Noun

kar m (definite singular karen, indefinite plural karar, definite plural karane)

  1. a bloke, chap, fellow, guy, man
  2. Synonyms: fyr, mann, type

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ker, from Proto-Germanic *kaz?. Doublet of kjer.

Noun

kar n (definite singular karet, indefinite plural kar, definite plural kara)

  1. a vessel, tub (container of liquid or other substance)
Derived terms
  • badekar
  • blodkar

References

  • “kar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • ark, kra, rak

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kar/

Noun

kar f

  1. genitive plural of kara

Noun

kar n

  1. genitive plural of karo

Romani

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kar m (plural kara)

  1. (anatomy) penis

Descendants

  • ? Albanian: kar

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ker, from Proto-Germanic *kaz?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??r/
  • Homophone: karl

Noun

kar n

  1. tub
  2. bathtub

Declension

Synonyms

  • (bathtub): badkar

Anagrams

  • ark, rak

References

  • kar in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • kar in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • kar in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • kar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English car.

Noun

kar

  1. car

Synonyms

  • ka

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka?/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (“snow”), from Old Turkic ????????? (kar, “snow”), from Proto-Turkic *k?r, *Ki?r (“snow”). Compare Proto-Mongolic *karig (“strong coldness”).

Noun

kar (definite accusative kar?, plural karlar)

  1. snow
Declension
Derived terms
See also
  • kâr
  • ya?mur

Further reading

  • kar in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Etymology 2

Verb

kar

  1. second-person singular imperative of karmak

Uzbek

Etymology

From Persian ??? (kar).

Adjective

kar (comparative karroq, superlative eng kar)

  1. deaf

Derived terms

  • karlik

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kar c (plural karren)

  1. choice

Derived terms

  • foarkar

Further reading

  • “kar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zazaki

Noun

kar

  1. (grammar) verb

Synonyms

  • fiil

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