different between vara vs var

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vara and Portuguese vara.

Noun

vara (plural varas)

1. (historical) A unit of length in the old Spanish system (equal to 0.8359 metres) or the old Portuguese system (equal to 1.1 metres).

Anagrams

• Avar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?ra.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?va.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ba.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?va.?a/

Noun

vara f (plural vares)

1. rod

Derived terms

• tenir vara alta

Further reading

• “vara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vara” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vara” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vara” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *war?-, compare Swedish vara, German Ware, English ware. Cognate to Finnish vara and Livonian var?.

Noun

vara (genitive vara, partitive vara)

1. property, estate, goods; things belonging to a person or organisation

Inflection

Derived terms

• kaasavara
• tarkvara

Etymology 2

From Proto-Baltic *v?ras, compare Lithuanian voras (“old”). Cognate to Finnish varhain.

Adverb

vara

1. early

Derived terms

• varajane
• varakult

Antonyms

• hilja

Faroese

Etymology

From Middle Low German waren.

Verb

vara (third person singular past indicative vardi, third person plural past indicative vart, supine vart)

1. to take, to last, to require (about time)

Conjugation

Finnish

(index va)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vara (compare Estonian vara), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *waraz and *war? (compare Swedish vara (“goods”), vara (“care”), English ware, wary and aware); the two Germanic words both ultimately come from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, heed, notice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r?/, [???r?]
• Rhymes: -?r?
• Syllabification: va?ra

Noun

vara

1. reserve, backup

2. (in the plural) (natural) resources, (natural) reserves

   Synonym: luonnonvarat

3. (in the plural) stores, stocks, reserves

   Synonym: varasto

4. (usually in the plural) funds, means, assets

   Synonyms: rahat, maksukyky (literally “ability to pay”), (asset) varallisuus

5. (usually in the singular) room, margin; allowance

6. (mostly in idioms and proverbs) caution, concern, care; often translated into English with an adjective, see also pitää varansa

Declension

Synonyms

• (caution, concern, care): varovaisuus

Derived terms

• elää yli varojensa = to live beyond one's means
• heittäytyä (+ genitive +) varaan = to bank on, count on, depend on
• jättää sattuman varaan = to leave to chance/contingency
• kaiken varalta = just in case, just to make sure, to be on the safe side
• (allative +) olla varaa (+ illative; verb always in third person singular) = to be able to/can afford

• olla varalla = to be in reserve/store, be at hand, be (readily) available
• olla (+ genitive +) varassa = to rest on (physically), to rely/depend on (figuratively)
• olla (+ genitive +) varoissaan = to be wealthy, be well-to-do, be flush
• pitää varansa = to watch out, watch one's step, be on one's guard, keep one's eyes open
• rakentua (+ genitive +) varaan = to be based on, be founded on, be grounded in
• siltä varalta, että... = in case (something happens)
• adjectives: varainen, -varaisuus, varakas, varaton
• adverbs: varaan, -varaisesti, varakkaasti, varalla, varalle, varalta, varassa, varasta
• nouns: varaamo, varallisuus, varanto, varasto, varat, varattomuus, varauma, varaus
• verbs: varata, varautua, varoa, varoittaa
• prefixes: vara-

Compounds

This table also contains terms prefixed with vara-.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vara (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin v?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?a?/

Noun

vara f (plural varas)

1. a long and thin stick, pole or rod

   Synonym: valoira

2. shoot; twig
3. (dated or historical) cloth yard; a unit of length equivalent to half a braza (½ a fathom or a yard)
   • 1335, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 463:

     que den a uos Eluira Perez en uossa vida de tres en tres annos çinquo varas de valacyna noua ou os dineiros para ella, quantos ella custar enna tenda

     they should give you, Elvira Pérez, throughout your life each three years, five yards of new Valencian cloth or the money for them, whatever it costs in the store

Derived terms

• vara de ourol
• vara fragueira
• varal
• varanca
• varear
• varela

References

• “vara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vara” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “vara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “vara” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vara” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?ra/

  Rhymes: -a?ra

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vara.

Noun

vara f (genitive singular vöru, nominative plural vörur)

1. article, commodity
2. (in the plural form) goods, wares, freight, commodities, merchandise

Declension

Derived terms

• vöruheiti

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vara, from Proto-Germanic *war?n?.

Verb

vara (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative varaði, supine varað)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to warn

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (warn): gefa aðvörun

Derived terms

• vara við
• vara sig
• vara sig á
• varaðu þig
• varast

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German waren (whence also Swedish vara, Norwegian vare, Danish vare), from Proto-Germanic *waz?n?.

Verb

vara (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative varði, supine varað)

1. (intransitive) to last, to continue, to go on

2. (intransitive) to last, to endure, to be permanent

Synonyms

• (last): standa
• (endure): endast

Etymology 4

Verb

vara (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative varði, supine varað)

1. (impersonal) to expect
   • 1990, the song Það sést ekki sætari mey ("None sweeter than me can be seen") from the album Gling-Gló by Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar (Lyrics)

     Og fyrr en mig varði

     hver strákur á mig starði

     eins og stelpur á gleym-mér-ei

     Before I would know it

     every boy would stare at me

     the way girls do at forget-me-nots

   Gestirnir komu fyrr en mig varði.

   The guests arrived earlier than expected.

Derived terms

• þá er minnst varði (suddenly, unexpectedly)

Etymology 5

Noun

vara

1. indefinite genitive plural of var

Etymology 6

Noun

vara

1. indefinite genitive plural of vör

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vara, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *waraz. Cognates include Finnish vara and Estonian vara.

Pronunciation

• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /???r?/
• Hyphenation: va?ra

Noun

vara (genitive varan, partitive varraa)

1. protection, safety
2. property, possession
3. alertness, awareness

Declension

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 640

Italian

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va.ra/
• Hyphenation: và?ro

Adjective

vara

1. feminine singular of varo

Verb

vara

1. inflection of varare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

Anagrams

• avrà

Karelian

Etymology

Related to Finnish vara.

Noun

vara

1. reserve

Ladino

Etymology

From Spanish vara, ultimately derived from Latin v?ra.

Noun

vara f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ??????, plural varas)

1. stick, rod, crossbar
2. (diminutive form, typography) The rafe lines in the shape of crossbars that can be used in Ladino orthography as diacritics on Hebrew script to alter the sound of letters to create new letters; a breve diacritic (?) is placed on top of letters to form fricative consonant sounds, such as changing ? (/p/) into ?? (/f/); usually referred to by the diminutive varrica (“little crossbar”).

Latin

Etymology

From v?rus.

Noun

v?ra f (genitive v?rae); first declension

1. fork, forked branch
2. tripod, easel

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: vara
• Galician: vara
• Portuguese: vara
• Spanish: vara

Adjective

v?ra

1. inflection of v?rus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

v?r?

1. ablative feminine singular of v?rus

Latvian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See varš.

Noun

vara m

1. genitive singular form of varš

Etymology 2

Noun

vara f (4th declension)

1. power

Declension

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Noun

vara

1. accusative/genitive singular of varra

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• varen

Noun

vara m or f

1. definite feminine singular of vare

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vara m (definite singular varaen, indefinite plural varaer or varaar, definite plural varaene or varaane)

1. clipping of vararepresentant

Etymology 2

Verb

vara (present tense varar/varer, past tense vara/varte, past participle vara/vart, passive infinitive varast, present participle varande, imperative var)

1. alternative form of vare

Etymology 3

Verb

vara (present tense varar, past tense vara, past participle vara, passive infinitive varast, present participle varande, imperative var)

1. alternative form of vare

Noun

vara f

1. definite singular of vare

Etymology 4

Noun

vara n

1. definite plural of var

Etymology 5

Verb

vara

1. (dialectal, nonstandard) alternative form of vera

References

• “vara” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• arva, raav, rava, vaar

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• væra, væræ

Etymology

From Old Norse vera, earlier vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesan?. Cognate with Danish være, Icelandic vera.

Verb

vara

1. To be
   1. to occupy a place, to be

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: vara

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

vara

1. excellent
2. noble

Declension

Derived terms

• adhivara
• anadhivara

Noun

vara m or n

1. wish, boon, favour

Declension

As the masculine or neuter of the adjective above, as appropriate.

Verb

vara

1. second-person singular imperative active of varati (“to desire”)

References

“vara”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?va.??/
• Hyphenation: va?ra

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese vara, from Latin v?ra. Compare Spanish vara.

Noun

vara f (plural varas)

1. a unit of length, a yard
2. a stick, a twig
3. a district court, an original court, a trial court/court of first instance
4. (Brazil, vulgar, slang) The penis

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

vara

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of varar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of varar

Further reading

• “vara” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va.ra/

Adverb

vara

1. in the summer

Noun

vara f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of var?

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vara (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. genitive singular of var

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?a/, [?ba.?a]

Etymology 1

From Latin v?ra.

Noun

vara f (plural varas)

1. a long and thin stick, pole or rod

   Synonyms: palo, bastón, barra

2. thin branch or cane (of a tree or bush)

   Synonym: rama

3. staff of office (staff which denotes an official's position or social rank)
4. (bullfighting) bullfighter's lance
5. (historical) vara (unit of length, about 0.836 metres or three Spanish feet)
6. (also figuratively) yardstick, standard (standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged)

   Synonym: estándar

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

vara

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of varar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of varar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of varar.

Further reading

• “vara” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v???ra/, (verb, informal) /?v??/
• • Pronunciation of the present tense form of vara (“to be”) varies geographically and depending on the formality of the language. The most formal pronunciation is /??r/ with a varying degree of openness in the vowel. Less formal pronunciation in running speech varies between /e?/ and /??/.
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish vara, væra from Old Norse vera, earlier vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesan?. Cognate with Danish være, Icelandic vera, Norwegian være.

Verb

vara (present är, preterite var, supine varit, imperative var)

1. To be
   1. to occupy a place, to be (somewhere)

   2. to occur, to take place
   3. (rare) to exist
      • c. 1847, Carl August Hagberg, translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet (c. 1601), act 3, scene 1

   4. (copulative) indicates that the subject and object are the same
   5. (copulative, mathematics) indicates that the values on either side of an equation are the same
   6. (copulative) indicates that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal
   7. (copulative) connects a noun to an adjective that describes it
      • 1917 translation, the Bible, Deuteronomy (Femte Mosebok), 1:26

   8. used to form the passive voice, when stressing the end result of the process
   9. (archaic) used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs

   10. used to indicate things like age, height, temperature, weather, ...

Usage notes

Although the past subjunctive in most verbs is viewed as dated (see: Appendix:Swedish verbs), vore is still very much in use by young speakers, even in informal or colloquial language.

Conjugation

See also:

• ären (archaic second person plural indicative)
• voren (archaic second person past plural indicative)
• varen (archaic second person plural imperative)

Alternative forms

• va (strongly colloquial)

Synonyms

• (occupy a place): befinna sig, finnas, ligga / sitta / stå
• (to exist): finnas existera
• (to create passive voice): bli (when putting stress on the process), varda (archaic, only still commonly used in the past tense form vart)

Related terms

• närvara
• närvaro
• tillvaro
• vara till
• var så god or varsågod
• övervara

Noun

vara n

1. existence, being

   Varats olidliga lätthet

   The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984 novel by Milan Kundera)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish vara, from Middle Low German waren, from Old Saxon waron, from Proto-Germanic *war?n?. Cognate with Danish vare

Verb

vara (present varar, preterite varade, supine varat, imperative vara)

1. to last

   Synonyms: fortfara, hålla på, pågå

Conjugation

Derived terms

• varaktig
• bevara
• förvara

Etymology 3

From Old Swedish vara, from Old Norse vari, cognate with Danish vare, possibly from an unattested Old Swedish vari (care), related to Icelandic vari (“caution, carefullness”), but influenced by Middle Low German ware namen, related to German wahren, wahrnehmen.

Noun

vara c

1. care

Usage notes

• Only used in expressions like the ones in the usage examples above.

Etymology 4

From Old Swedish vara, from Old Norse vara, from Middle Low German ware. Cognate with Danish vare, German Ware, English ware. Could be related to Sanskrit vara- (valuable).

Noun

vara c

1. a ware, goods, article

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 5

Attested since 1664. From var (“pus”) +? -a.

Verb

vara (present varar, preterite varade, supine varat, imperative vara)

1. to generate pus

Conjugation

References

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

Anagrams

• avar

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish vara.

Noun

vara

1. stock, store, inventory
2. resource
3. asset

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????, ??????, ?????????, ????????, ????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ra/

Verb

vara

1. Alternative present plural form of vera in sothern dialects.

Translingual

Symbol

var

1. (physics, electrics) Alternative form of VAR

English

Noun

var (plural vars)

1. (programming) Abbreviation of variable.
2. (statistics) Abbreviation of variance.
3. (physics) A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.

Derived terms

• varmeter

Anagrams

• ARV, rav

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *werja, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wer- (“to bind, hang”) (compare Ancient Greek ????? (aeír?, “to heave, hoist up”), Lithuanian vérti (“to weigh”)).

Verb

var (first-person singular past tense vara, participle varur)

1. I hang
2. I depend on
3. I bring down

Derived terms

• varg
• varesë

Related terms

• vjerr, zverk

References

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *b?r. Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (bar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?r/

Predicative

var

1. Existential copula: there is, there are, there exists, there exist

2. Expressing possession: to have

Synonyms

• var olmaq

Antonyms

• yox (“there is no; to not have”)
• yox olmaq

Derived terms

• varl?q (“existence; being”)

References

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech var, from Proto-Slavic *var?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?var]
• Hyphenation: var
• Rhymes: -ar

Noun

var m inan

1. boiling

Declension

Derived terms

• bod varu

Related terms

• va?it
• v?ít
• varný

Further reading

• var in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• var in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse varr, from Proto-Germanic *waraz, cognate with English aware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????]

Adjective

var

1. only in the expression: blive var: become aware

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???]

Verb

var

1. past tense of være

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????]

Verb

var

1. imperative of vare

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch *var, from Old Dutch *far, *fare, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *farh, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *farhaz. Related to varken (“pig”), an old diminutive of var. Related to English farrow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?r/

Noun

var m (plural varren, diminutive varretje n)

1. male pig; boar

Synonyms

• (male pig): beer

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?a??/
• Rhymes: -?a??
• Homophones: varð, vær

Verb

var

1. first/third-person indicative past of at vera

Usage notes

• eg var ógvuliga bangin - I was terribly afraid
• hann var ein góður maður - he was a good man
• hon var borin í heim í 1913 - she was born 1913
• tað var stuttligt - it was funny
• var tað ikki hon? - wasn't it her?

Conjugation

Hungarian

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, perhaps related to the verb varr (“to sew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?r]
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

var (plural varok or varak)

1. scab (an incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing)

Declension

or less commonly:

Derived terms

• varas

(Compound words):

• ótvar

See also

• forradás
• heg

Further reading

• var 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): /va?r/
• Rhymes: -a?r

Etymology 1

From Old Norse varr, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

Adjective

var (comparative varari, superlative varastur)

1. cautious, aware

Declension

Derived terms

• varlega
• varlegur
• gera vart við sig ("to make oneself known; to show oneself")
• vera var um sig ("to be on one's guard")
• verða var við ("to be aware of")

Etymology 2

Noun

var n (genitive singular vars, nominative plural vör)

1. lee, shelter

Declension

Synonyms

• (shelter): skjól

Etymology 3

Inflected form of vera (“to be”).

Verb

var

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of vera

Latvian

Verb

var

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of var?t
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of var?t
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of var?t
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of var?t

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Verb

var

1. simple past of være
2. imperative of vare

Derived terms

• (of adjective, yet to be added) varsom
• (of noun) putevar

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse var, from Proto-Germanic *was. Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h?wes-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(r)/ (examples of pronunciation)

Verb

var

1. past tense of vera (“to be”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse varr, from Proto-Germanic *waraz. Akin to English wary.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

var (masculine and feminine var, neuter vart, definite singular and plural vare, comparative varare, indefinite superlative varast, definite superlative varaste)

1. wary, careful
2. nervous, timid
3. sensitive

   Eg er var for høge lydar.

   I am sensitive to loud noises.

Derived terms

• føre var

Etymology 3

From Old Norse ver from verja. Doublet of vær.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

var n (definite singular varet, indefinite plural var, definite plural vara)

1. a sheath or covering

Derived terms

• putevar

Etymology 4

Of uncertain origin, but may be related to verk.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

var n (definite singular varet, indefinite plural var, definite plural vara)

1. (dried) slime, puss, pain

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

var

1. present of va
2. imperative of vara and vare

References

• “var” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• arv, rav

Old Norse

Etymology

From earlier vas, from Proto-Norse ??? (was) from Proto-Germanic *was, first- and third-person past singular indicative of *wesan?.

Verb

var

1. first/third-person singular indicative past of vera

Descendants

References

• var in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, Common Slavic *var?.

Noun

var n (plural varuri)

1. lime (calcium oxide, quicklime)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *var?, from Proto-Indo-European *w?rh?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?â?r/

Noun

v?r m or f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (uncountable) heat

Declension

References

• “var” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hvar (obsolete since 1906)
• hwar (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

Adverb

var (not comparable)

1. where; at which place

   Var är mina nycklar?

   Where are my keys?

   Var var jag?

   Where was I?

Related terms

• vart
• varifrån

Conjunction

var

1. where; the situation in which

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hverr (paradigm merged with a descendant of *hwaz and a descendant of Proto-Germanic *hwarjaz (“who (of many)”). A cognate to Icelandic hver.

Determiner

var (neuter vart)

1. (dated) every
   • c. 1847, Carl August Hagberg, translation of Shakespeare's As You Like It (c. 1599), act 3, scene 2

   Synonym: varje

2. each; per person/thing involved

Derived terms

• vardag (“weekday”)
• var och en (“one and all”)
• varsågod

Etymology 3

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

Noun

var n or c

1. (uncountable) pus; a mixture of dead bacteria and white blood cells, occurring in areas of infections n
2. pillowcase n
3. various species of flatfish of the family Scophthalmidae, such as megrim, whiff, butt, turbot c

Declension

Related terms

• bergsvar
• glasvar
• havsvar
• kuddvar
• piggvar
• slätvar
• varböld

Etymology 4

Etymology

From Old Norse var, from earlier vas, from Proto-Norse ??? (was), from Proto-Germanic *was

Verb

var

1. past tense of vara.: was, were
2. imperative of vara.

Anagrams

• arv

Tat

Etymology

From Middle Persian w’t (w?d, “wind”), from Proto-Iranian *HwáHatah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwáHatas, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts (“wind”).

Noun

var

1. wind

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ????, from Proto-Turkic *b?r. Compare Old Turkic ????????? (bar).

Adjective

var (not comparable)

1. there is, there are (not a verb)

   (Time)

2. it exists

3. Expressing possession, equivalent of have.

Usage notes

As an adjective, var is only used predicatively.

Antonyms

• yok (there isn't, not have)

Etymology 2

Verb

var

1. second-person singular imperative of varmak

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?r/, /væ?r/

  Rhymes: -á?r

Etymology 1

From Old Norse varr, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

Adjective

var

1. cautious, aware

   bätter fyri var än ätter snar

   better safe than sorry

Etymology 2

Noun

var m

1. cover, refuge

   häran tag varn å mänisja

   the hare takes refuge from people

Etymology 3

From Old Norse v?rr, from Proto-Germanic *warzuz.

Noun

var m

1. a line in the water made by the movement of a swimming bird or fish
2. (figuratively, of people)

   hä garn var bodhta om

   There is a fuss around him

Derived terms

• varäs (“streaks appear in the water”)

Etymology 4

Inflected form of vera (“to be”).

Verb

var

1. singular past indicative of vera